Scour Protections for Offshore Foundations of Marine Energy Harvesting Technologies: A Review

The nature of scour development and scour protection at offshore windfarm foundations.

Analysis and interpretation of monitoring data for the seabed bathymetry local to offshore windfarm foundations has shown how the scour develops in time and highlighted variations between sites with different seabed sediment characteristics, i.e. sands and clays. Results from European offshore windfarms have generated a unique dataset for comparison with previously published data. Where surfici...

Review of Energy Harvesting Technologies for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Network

The rapid growth in demands for computing everywhere has made computer a pivotal component of human mankind daily lives. Whether we use the computers to gather information from the Web, to utilize them for entertainment purposes or to use them for running businesses, computers are noticeably becoming more widespread, mobile and smaller in size. What we often overlook and did not notice is the p...

Energy Harvesting Technologies: Thick-Film Piezoelectric Microgenerator

A periodic folded piezoelectric beam for efficient vibration energy harvesting

Periodic piezoelectric beams have been used for broadband vibration energy harvesting in recent years. In this paper, a periodic folded piezoelectric beam (PFPB) is introduced. The PFPB has special features that distinguish it from other periodic piezoelectric beams. The Adomian decomposition method (ADM) is used to calculate the first two band gaps andtwelve natural frequencies of the PF...

Artificial Reef Effect in relation to Offshore Renewable Energy Conversion: State of the Art

The rapid worldwide growth of offshore renewable energy production will provide marine organisms with new hard substrate for colonization, thus acting as artificial reefs. The artificial reef effect is important when constructing, for example, scour protections since it can generate an enhanced habitat. Specifically, artificial structures can create increased heterogeneity in the area important...