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Prof. Hani Nassif

at Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick

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Proceedings Article | 22 March 2021 Paper

Feasibility of using a high-power electromagnetic energy harvester to power structural health monitoring sensors and systems in transportation infrastructures

Mohsen Amjadian, Anil K. Agrawal, Hani Nassif

Proceedings Volume 11591, 115911G (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2585257

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Structural health monitoring, Electromagnetism, Copper, Bridges, Structural sensing, Magnetism, Energy harvesting

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This paper investigates the feasibility of an electromagnetism energy harvester (EMEH) for scavenging electric energy from transportation infrastructures and powering of conventional sensors used for their structural health monitoring. The proposed EMEH consists of two stationary layers of three cuboidal permanent magnets (PMs), a rectangular thick aircore copper coil (COIL) attached to the free end of a flexible cantilever beam whose fixed end is firmly attached to the highway bridge oscillating in the vertical motion due to passing traffic. The proposed EMEH utilizes the concept of creating an alternating array of permanent magnets to achieve strong and focused magnetic field in a particular orientation. When the COIL is attached to the cantilever beam and is placed close to the PMs, ambient and traffic induced vibration of the cantilever beam induces eddy current in the COIL. The tip mass and stiffness of the cantilever beam are adjusted such that a low-frequency vibration due to the passing traffic can effectively induce the vibration of the cantilever beam. This vibration is further amplified by tuning the frequency of the cantilever beam and its tip mass to resonance frequency of the highway bridge. The numerical results show that the proposed EMEH is capable of producing an average electrical power more than 1 W at the resonance frequency 4 Hz over a time period of 1 second that alone is more than enough to power conventional wireless sensors.

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