Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting

ISBN-13: 9780128239681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 284 str.

Hassan Elahi

Spis treści

Part I Introduction 1. Piezoelectric Materials 2. Smart structures 3. Fluid-Structure Interaction

Part II Energy Harvesting 4. Energy harvesting 5. Piezoelectric energy harvesters 6. Energy harvesting and circuits 7. Modelling and simulation of a piezoelectric energy harvester

Part III Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting 8. Flutter-based aeroelastic energy harvesting 9. Limit cycle oscillations 10. Vortex-induced vibrations based aeroelastic energy harvesting 11. Gallooping-based aeroelastic energy harvesting 12. Experimental aeroelastic energy harvesting 13. Concluding remarks

O autorze

Dr Hassan Elahi is a Mechatronics Engineer and has completed his PhD from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He has worked as a Research Associate in the same department. His PhD research thesis was on "Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting by Aeroelastic Means.” Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Mechatronics Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. He has obtained Award of Honors in his master's degree. Dr. Elahi has received best paper award related to energy harvesting system for mechatronics devices in 2018 by MDPI. Dr. Marco Eugeni holds a Master's degree in Space Engineering and PhD in Aerospace Materials and Technologies at Sapienza University of Rome, 2014. Since 2014 he has been an Associate Researcher at Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMA). He is a
Participant in various ESA project concerning the Vega launcher and Industry 4.0 applications to Satellite Industry, and since 2016, a consultant to Smart Structures Solutions directly involved in the main experimental campaign carried on. Dr. Eugeni's research topics concentrate in computational mechanics and finite element, aerospace structures, composite structures, thermal structures, intelligent materials and structures, aeroelasticity, viscoelastic materials modeling, structural dynamics, additive manufacturing, and smart manufacturing. Dr. Paolo Gaudenzi is a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Università di Roma La Sapienza (1989). He is an expert in the evaluation of research projects for the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research, the Italian Ministry for Industrial development, The European Research Council, the regions Lazio, Toscana, Veneto, Piemonte, Puglia; and the Chairman of the selection board for ENEA (National research body in the field of energy and power). Dr. Gaudenzi is the author of more than 100 papers, 44 of which published on international refereed journals, and of the research book Smart structures, J. Wiley 2009. His reseach interests are aerospace structures, space systems, concurrent engineering and multidisciplinary methods for engineering design, cost engineering, laminated and composite structures, active materials and intelligent structures, thermal structures, finite element modelling, multyphisics analysis.