Preisach-type models are suggested for the description of strain hysteresis of magnetostrictive materials. It is pointed out that the strain hysteresis has some peculiar properties in comparison with magnetic hysteresis. These peculiarities of strain hysteresis are discussed in detail along with the identification problem for these models.
The paper deals with the mechanical vibrations damping effect induced by a magnetostrictive energy harvesting device properly working. The proposed experimental setup allows us to investigate, through time-domain measurements, the dependence of the mechanical damping from parameters like magnetic bias and external load, affecting the global harvested power. This result would underline the promising possibility to reduce mechanical vibrations and obtain power harvesting at the same time.
Transformers are regarded as crucial components in power systems. Due to market globalization, power transformer manufacturers are facing an increasingly competitive environment that mandates the adoption of design strategies yielding better performance at lower costs. In this paper, a power transformer design methodology using multi-objective evolutionary optimization is proposed. Using this methodology, which is tailored to be target performance design-oriented, quick rough estimation of transformer design specifics may be inferred. Testing of the suggested approach revealed significant qualitative and quantitative match with measured design and performance values. Details of the proposed methodology as well as sample design results are reported in the paper.
New isotropic vector Preisach-type models of hysteresis are introduced. These new models contain additional unknown functions. This presents the opportunity to incorporate more experimental data in the identification process than in the case of previously suggested vector Preisach models, thus leading to more accurate models. The solution of the identification problem is discussed and some results of experimental testing of these models are reported.
This paper deals with a recently proposed device for energy harvesting from environmental vibrations, employing a magnetostrictive material. Even if most of the modeling efforts were focused on a linear approach, more complex and nontrivial phenomena are experimentally observed. A sample of such nontrivial behaviors, suggesting the definition of potentially more effective models, is described and discussed in this paper.
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