Well done! Keep up the great work.

Congrats to Geng!

well done!

Liuding Yu (from Harbin Engineering Univ.) and Zhiwei Zhang (Beijing Jiao Tong Univ.) joined our team as visiting PhD students last week and will conduct research at Univ. of Auckland for 2 years and 1 year, respectively. Liuding will work on self-adaptive structures for effective vibration suppression and energy harvesting. Zhiwei will focus on harvesting kinetic energy from civil structures.

well done!

“A two-degree-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester with stoppers for achieving enhanced performance” – International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

The negative resistance circuit was simulated and implemented to induce jumps from low energy to high energy orbits in nonlinear energy harvesters for their efficiency enhancement.

C. Lan, L. Tang*, W. Qin, 2017, “Obtaining High-Energy Responses of Nonlinear Piezoelectric Energy Harvester by Voltage Impulse Perturbations” (Accepted for publication by The European Physical Journal Applied Physics)

Acoustic Metamaterials with Coupled Local Resonators for Broadband Vibration Suppression”, AIP Advances, 7(2), 025211.

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A collaborative work of UoA, NTU and ShanghaiTech.

10.1109/TMECH.2016.2630732

Congrats to Liuyang!