... excitation frequencies to make sure that the harvesters are operated in a linear response range. In this paper, the L-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester with the MFC patch in torsional mode is proposed to capture out-of-plane vibration mechanical energy, and the energy harvesting performance...

...Onur Bilgen; Alper Erturk; Daniel J. Inman A type of piezoceramic composite actuator known as Macro-Fiber Composite (MFC) is used commonly for actuation in smart-material structures. In this paper, a linear distributed parameter electromechanical model is proposed to predict the structural response...