Piezoelectric thermoelastic dissipation research of piezoelectric harvester under different vibration

摘要

Piezoelectric materials are widely used to form piezoelectric energy harvesters. Also, the thermoelastic dissipation always influences the energy harvesting efficiency, during the energy harvest process. Therefore, in this paper, we discuss the effect of thermoelastic dissipation on the piezoelectric harvester through numerical calculation, simulation and experiment. The piezoelectric thermoelastic coupling governing equations under different vibration are derived, which are based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory, thermal conduction model and piezoelectric field model. Then, the structure frequency shift and thermoelastic damping are studied via numerical calculation and simulation. Meanwhile, we show the influence of the temperature field on the piezoelectric structure under different vibration modes. Furth more, we research the variations of piezoelectric structure thermoelastic dissipation characteristics under different structure geometry sizes. Based on these analyses, the effect of piezoelectric thermoelastic dissipation on the piezoelectric harvester is researched.