Effect of Road Surface,Vehicle, and Device Characteristics on Energy Harvesting from Bridge–Vehicle Interactions |
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| Authors: | Paul Cahill Vesna Jaksic John Keane Anthony O'Sullivan Alan Mathewson Shaikh Faruque Ali Vikram Pakrashi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. MaREI, Environmental Research Institute, and Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland;2. Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland;3. Heterogeneous Systems Integration Group, Microsystems Group, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland;4. Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, India;5. School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin and MaREI, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland |
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| Abstract: | Energy harvesting to power sensors for structural health monitoring (SHM) has received huge attention worldwide. A number of practical aspects affecting energy harvesting and the possibility of health monitoring directly from energy harvesters is investigated here. The key idea is the amount of power received from a damaged and an undamaged structure varying and the signature of such variation can be used for SHM. For this study, a damaged bridge and an undamaged bridge are considered with harvesters located at different positions and the power harvested is accessed numerically to determine how energy harvesting can act as a damage detector and monitor. Bridge–vehicle interaction is exploited to harvest energy. For a damaged bridge, a bilinear breathing crack is considered. Variable surface roughness according to ISO 8606:1995(E) is considered such that the real values can be considered in the simulation. The possibility of a drive‐by type health monitoring using energy harvesting is highlighted and the effects of road surface on such monitoring are identified. The sensitivity of the harvester health monitoring to locations and extents of crack damage are reported. This study investigates the effects of multiple harvesters and the effects of vehicular parameters on the harvested power. Continuous harvesting over a length of the bridge is considered semianalytically. A comparison among the numerical simulations, detailed finite element analysis, and experimental results emphasizes the feasibility of the proposed method. |
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