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Energy harvesting from a five-story building and investigation of frequency effect on output power

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Human activities on the building floor can cause vibration which is potentially disturbing for occupants. This kind of vibration could be useful in energy harvesting. One of the most important devices for energy harvesting is piezoelectric materials. In this paper the energy harvesting of a five-story wooden building vibration using piezoelectric materials is developed and a new fixture is designed for piezoelectric energy harvester. Furthermore, the effect of frequency on output energy is investigated and the power of energy harvesting is obtained. Results show that increasing of input frequency leads to increase the energy harvesting from Volture.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Iman Aminzahed

  2. School of Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

    Yue Zhang

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran

    Milad Jabbari

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Aminzahed, I., Zhang, Y. & Jabbari, M. Energy harvesting from a five-story building and investigation of frequency effect on output power. Int J Interact Des Manuf 10, 301–308 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-016-0309-4

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