Data of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting of a bridge undergoing vibration testing and train passage

The data presented in this article is in relation to the research article “Vibration energy harvesting based monitoring of an operational bridge undergoing forced vibration and train passage” Cahill et al. (2018) [1]. The article provides data on the full-scale bridge testing using piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters on Pershagen Bridge, Sweden. The bridge is actively excited via a swept sinusoidal input. During the testing, the bridge remains operational and train passages continue. The test recordings include the voltage responses obtained from the vibration energy harvesters during these tests and train passages. The original dataset is made available to encourage the use of energy harvesting for Structural Health Monitoring.

Keywords

Structural dynamics , Energy harvesting , Structural health monitoring , Bridge engineering

Citation

Cahill, P., Hazra, B., Karoumi, R., Mathewson, A. and Pakrashi, V. (2018) 'Data of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting of a bridge undergoing vibration testing and train passage', Data in Brief, 17, pp. 261-266. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.009