Preliminary Study of Optimum Piezoelectric Cross-Ply Composites for Energy Harvesting

Table 1

Breakdown of electrical energy for two [0/0/90/90]_T laminates.

	Component	% Total energy, AR = 1	% Total energy, AR = 5
State 1	𝑈^𝑡𝑥	46.26	47.31
	𝑈^𝑡𝑦	0.22	0.03
	𝑈^𝑏𝑥	2.63	2.53
	𝑈^𝑏𝑦	0.89	0.13
	Total	50.00	50.00
State 2	𝑈^𝑡𝑥	0.89	0.13
	𝑈^𝑡𝑦	2.63	2.53
	𝑈^𝑏𝑥	0.22	0.03
	𝑈^𝑏𝑦	46.26	47.31
	Total	50.00	50.00