Improving the Performance of a Post-Buckled Beam Harvester under Combined External and Parametrical Slow Excitations

Abstract

In this paper, we consider novel bursting energy harvesting under combined external and parametrical slow excitations, and a harvester is realized by employing an externally and parametrically excited post-buckled beam. Based on the method of fast–slow dynamics analysis, multiple-frequency oscillation, with two slow commensurate excitation frequencies, is used to observe complex bursting patterns, the behaviors of the bursting response are presented, and some novel one-parameter bifurcation patterns are observed. Furthermore, the bursting harvesting performances of the single and the two slow commensurate excitation frequencies are compared, and it was found that the two slow commensurate excitation frequencies can be used to improve the harvesting voltage.