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Seminar
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Cosponsor: Dean of Engineering
Energy Harvesting Methods and Applications
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Daniel J. Inman, Ph.D.
G.R. Goodson Professor and Director
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Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures at Virginia Tech |
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
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Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA
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Energy harvesting has become an explosive area of research in the past decade. Here we focus on a variety of new techniques attempting to optimize the amount of energy that can be extracted from various ambient energy sources. Various applications of energy harvesting are also included. The methods discussed include using nonlinear effects in both the mechanical side and electrical side. Also methods combining magnetic transduction and piezoelectric transduction are presented. The applications include micro air vehicles, structural health monitoring and general sensor systems. The concept of harvesting is also integrated into the concept of multifunctional structures through the introduction of “self-charging structures” in an application for micro air vehicles. In conclusion the author’s thoughts on the way forward will be presented. |
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Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Director of the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, the Director of the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Structures, and the G.R. Goodson Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. He also serves as the Brunel Professor of Smart Technologies at the University of Bristol in the UK. Since 1980, he has published six books (on vibration, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 238 journal papers and 472 proceedings papers, given 45 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 48 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is currently Technical Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (1999- ) and Technical Editor of the journal Shock and Vibration (1999- ). He won the ASME Adaptive Structures Award in April 2000, the ASME/AIAA SDM Best Paper Award in April 2001, the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Life Time Achievement Award in March of 2003, the ASME/Boeing Best Paper Award by the ASME Aerospace Structures and Materials Technical Committee 2007, the ASME Den Hartog Award in 2007 and the Life Time Achievement award in Structural Health Monitoring in 2009. He is currently a Member-at-Large on the Society of Experimental Mechanics Executive Board (2008-2010) and a former Chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. |
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