Projektbeschreibung
Neue piezoelektrische Dämpfer für intelligente Hochhäuser
Da Piezomaterial nicht in der Lage ist, Lasten abzutragen und niedrige Vibrationsfrequenzen in Gebäuden abzufangen, kommen Vorrichtungen zur Energieernte aus piezoelektrischen Quellen bislang nicht als strukturelle Verbindungen in Zivilgebäuden in Frage. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt SMART-UP zielt darauf ab, eine neue Vorrichtungsart einzuführen: die sogenannten piezoelektrischen Dämpfer sollen in moderne Hochhäuser integrierbar sein, um zugleich die Verbindung von Strukturbauteilen und die Energieernte zu ermöglichen. Piezoelektrische Dämpfer sind Verbundelemente, die in den Verbindungen zwischen den Strukturbauteilen eines Gebäudes verwendet werden. Sie nutzen windinduzierte Schwingungen, um die kinetische Energie des Schwinggebildes in Elektrizität umzuwandeln. Mithilfe von piezoelektrischen Dämpfern können gegenwärtige Verfahren zur Energieernte aus piezoelektrischen Quellen von der Mikro- und Mesoskala auf die Makroskala gebracht werden. Das Projekt wird zu Hochhäusern beitragen, die gegen Windlasten widerstandsfähig sind und sich zugleich windinduzierte Schwingungen zunutze machen können, um ihren CO2-Fußabdruck zu reduzieren und ihre Energieeffizienz zu verbessern.
Ziel
The SMART-UP project will initiate innovative devices called piezoelectric-dampers (PiDs) to be embedded in modern tall buildings for simultaneous structural elements connection and energy harvesting (EH). PiDs are composite elements (piezoelectric+steel or rubber) located in the connections between buildings’ structural members and engaged by wind-induced oscillations to transform the kinetic energy of the oscillating structure into electricity. The concept of PiD is transformative as this will scale-up currently developed piezoelectric EH (pzEH) techniques at the micro and meso-scales to the truly macro scale. pzEH devices have never been implemented as structural connections in civil buildings for a number of reasons, such as the inadequacy of piezo materials in carrying loads and low frequencies of the vibrations occurring in buildings. These will be comprehensively addressed in SMART-UP by innovative in-parallel coupling schemes between piezo and the load-carrying members such as steel and/or rubber and by allowing the piezo-blocks working in nonlinear regimes arising from buckling or impact. These features will allow their implementation in buildings for powering wireless sensors provided for building automation, which leads to an increment of the building sustainability, and for structural-health monitoring, leading to an increase of the building resilience. Thanks to the introduction of these novel macroscale EH skills, the SMART-UP project makes a step-change in high-rise buildings design and management, by defining a new breed of tall SMART buildings with self-powering, adaptive-in-behavior capabilities. The envisioned buildings not only resist wind loads, but they exploit wind-induced vibrations to reduce their carbon footprint and improve their performances. They will push Europe moving forward to the smart cities era, which is of paramount importance in our modern technological and connected/inclusive society.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpiezoelectrics
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringarchitecture engineeringsustainable architecturesustainable building
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