Research Article

Modeling and Experiment of a V-Shaped Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

Table 1

The material and dimension parameters of piezoelectric bimorph and substructure.

Material and geometric parametersValue/Unit

PZT-51 Density, 7.45×103kg/m3
PZT-51 Elastic stiffness constant, 76.9GPa
PZT-51 Piezoelectric constant, -186×10C/N
PZT-51 Permittivity, 1500F/m
Density of copper substructure, 9.0×103kg/m3
Young’s modulus of copper substructure, Y106GPa
PZT-51 Geometry ()70mm×15mm×0.55mm
Geometry of copper substructure 70 mm×18mm×0.45mm