Research Article

Experimental Analysis of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System for Harmonic, Random, and Sine on Random Vibration

Table 1

System parameters.

SymbolRepresentationValueUnit

Natural frequency58.3l; 124.5hHz
Antiresonant frequency60.1l; 127.5hHz
Modal mass9.5l; 1.1hg
Quality factor60l; 120h
Force factor N V−1
Electromechanical coupling factor0.92%
Clamped capacitance130nf
Load capacitance600μf

The superscripts l, standing for low, and h, standing for high, represent the corresponding values for the frequencies near the lower and upper bounds of tunable range, 58.3 Hz and 124.5 Hz, respectively.