Energy harvesting module for the improvement of the damping performance of autonomous synchronized switching on inductance

Abstract

Shunted piezoelectric transducers can be used to dissipate vibration energy of a host structure. The synchronized switch damping on inductance is a shunting technique characterized by a nearly rectangular shape of the resulting voltage on the transducer being in antiphase with the structure’s velocity. As for these systems, previous studies have reported the strong relationship between the dissipated energy and the slope of the voltage signal occurring during the switch. This implies that any electrical losses have to be minimized in order to increase the slope of the voltage signal and, thus, the damping performance. The rate of change of the voltage represents a critical issue for autonomous shunts, where the switch can be inefficient because the power for switching the circuit is not supplied by an external source but is supplied by the vibrating structure itself. In this study, a new technique for improving the damping performance of autonomous synchronized switch damping on inductance is proposed based on controlling the switch with a square wave signal that reduces its electrical losses. An experimental validation of the proposed shunting technique is carried out in order to assess the performance in both the cases of a single-tone and multimodal responses of the structure.

Keywords

Structural vibration piezoelectric shunt damping autonomous shunt

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