Piezoelectric Actuators and Generators for Energy Harvesting

Professor DrSc. Sergey N. Shevtsov is Head of Laboratory, South Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov- on-Don, Russia.

• Preface.- Introduction.- General statement of the problems of electroelasticity.- Power high stroke flex-tensional piezoelectric actuator with optimized geometry.- Modeling of stack type piezoelectric generators.- Modeling of cantilever type piezoelectric generators.- Experimental investigations of piezoelectric generators.- Identification of defects in cantilever elastic rod.- Set-up for studying oscillation parameters and identification of defects in rod constructions.- Appendixes.