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Effects of mechanical non-linearity on the dynamic behaviour of ring-based inertial rate sensors (2019)
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© 2019 Violetta Di Napoli, et al. This paper presents a mathematical model to describe the 2 in-plane response of supported ring-based MEMS Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes (CVGs), including mechanical non-linearity in ring and support structures. Whils... Read More about Effects of mechanical non-linearity on the dynamic behaviour of ring-based inertial rate sensors.

Nonlinear electrostatic effects in MEMS ring-based rate sensors under shock excitation (2019)
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The vibration response of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope (CVG) subjected to in-plane shock is modelled and analysed to quantify the effect of shock on angular velocity measurement. The model developed considers a ring resonator... Read More about Nonlinear electrostatic effects in MEMS ring-based rate sensors under shock excitation.

Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock (2018)
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This paper investigates the dynamic behaviour of capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes (CVGs) under severe shock conditions. A general analytical model is developed for a multi-supported ring resonator by describing the in-plane ring re... Read More about Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock.

Simply-supported multi-layered beams for energy harvesting (2016)
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This paper develops an analytical model for predicting the performance of simply-supported multi-layered piezoelectric vibrating energy harvesters. The model includes the effects of material and geometric nonlinearities, as well as axial pre-tension/... Read More about Simply-supported multi-layered beams for energy harvesting.

Model refinements and experimental testing of highly flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters (2016)
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This paper addresses limitations to existing analytical models for piezoelectric energy harvesters. The presented model is targeted at predicting behaviours of highly flexible piezoelectric devices (FPEDs) and includes high orders of substrate and pi... Read More about Model refinements and experimental testing of highly flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters.

An investigation on thermoelastic damping of high-Q ring resonators (2015)
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For applications requiring high performance angular rate measurements it is important to be able to design MEMS rate sensors with high quality factors (Q). This paper considers ring resonator based rate sensors and investigates the influence of desig... Read More about An investigation on thermoelastic damping of high-Q ring resonators.

An experimental study of wave power generation using a flexible piezoelectric device (2015)
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An experimental study of wave power generation using flexible piezoelectric devices (FPEDs) is presented in this paper. Two alternate configurations for harvesting power from waves are proposed. In the first configuration, the FPEDs are installed hor... Read More about An experimental study of wave power generation using a flexible piezoelectric device.

Optimization of piezoelectric cantilever energy harvesters including non-linear effects (2014)
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This paper proposes a versatile non-linear model for predicting piezoelectric energy harvester performance. The presented model includes (i) material non-linearity, for both substrate and piezoelectric layers, and (ii) geometric non-linearity incorpo... Read More about Optimization of piezoelectric cantilever energy harvesters including non-linear effects.

Forced vibration experiments on flexible piezoelectric devices operating in air and water environments (2014)
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