Journal
SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/25/3/035012
Keywords
piezoelectricity harvesting; joint movement; clothing pressure; design of garment; property of textile material; PVDF-based piezoelectricity harvester
Funding
- Pioneer Research Center Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [2013-8-0704]
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The harvesting of piezoelectricity through the human body involves the conversion of mechanical energy, mostly generated by the repeated movements of the body, to electrical energy, irrespective of the time and location. In this research, it was expected that the garment design would play an important role in increasing the efficiency of piezoelectricity scavenged in a garment because the mechanical deformation imposed on the energy harvester could increase through an optimal design configuration for the garment parts supporting a piezoelectricity harvester. With this expectation, this research aimed to analyze the effect of the clothing factors, and that of human factors on the efficiency of piezoelectricity harvesting through clothing in joint movements. These analyses resulted in that the efficiency of the piezoelectricity harvesting was affected from both two clothing factors, tightness level depending upon the property of the textile material and design configuration of the garment part supporting the piezoelectricity harvesting. Among the three proposed designs of the garment part supporting the piezoelectricity harvesting, 'reinforced 3D module design,' which maximized the value of radius in the piezoelectricity harvester, showed the highest efficiency across all areas of the joints in the human body. The two human factors, frequency of movement and body part, affected the efficiency of the piezoelectricity harvesting as well.
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