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- Energy harvesting; Piezoelectric ceramics; Piezoelectricity; Textile fibers; Vibrations (mechanical) (1)
- Experimental verification; Micro-mechanical modeling; Multi-scale approaches; Multi-scale Modeling; Numerical and experimental analysis; PFC; Static and dynamic tests; Transformation field analysis (1)
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Suborbital Spaceflight: A Student Team’S Plan To Send A Rocket To Space, Bryce Chanes, William Carpenter, Julio Benavides, Matthew Haslam, Brenda Haven
Suborbital Spaceflight: A Student Team’S Plan To Send A Rocket To Space, Bryce Chanes, William Carpenter, Julio Benavides, Matthew Haslam, Brenda Haven
Aviation / Aeronautics / Aerospace International Research Conference
The Eagle Space Flight Team was created with the goal of becoming the first undergraduate team to design, build, and launch a rocket capable of suborbital spaceflight. In order to achieve this goal, the team will have to design a rocket capable of atmospheric flight at speeds over Mach 5 and launch it on one of the largest amateur rocket motors ever made. Over the next three years, the team will progress towards accomplishing this feat through a series of incremental test flights. Before the space flight, the team will build three sub-scale rockets designed to reach altitudes of 30,000’, …
A Multi-Scale Based Model For Composite Materials With Embedded Pzt Filaments For Energy Harvesting, A.E. El-Etriby, M.E. Abdel-Meguid, K.M. Shalan, Tarek Hatem, Yehia Bahei-El-Din
A Multi-Scale Based Model For Composite Materials With Embedded Pzt Filaments For Energy Harvesting, A.E. El-Etriby, M.E. Abdel-Meguid, K.M. Shalan, Tarek Hatem, Yehia Bahei-El-Din
Centre for Advanced Materials
Ambient vibrations are major source of wasted energy, exploiting properly such vibration can be converted to valuable energy and harvested to power up devices, i.e. electronic devices. Accordingly, energy harvesting using smart structures with active piezoelectric ceramics has gained wide interest over the past few years as a method for converting such wasted energy. This paper provides numerical and experimental analysis of piezoelectric fiber based composites for energy harvesting applications proposing a multi-scale modeling approach coupled with experimental verification. The multi-scale approach suggested predicting the behavior of piezoelectric fiber-based composites use micromechanical model based on Transformation Field Analysis (TFA) to …