Research Article

A Combined Softening and Hardening Mechanism for Low Frequency Human Motion Energy Harvesting Application

Figure 9

(a) Force against displacement and (b) stiffness against displacement curves for nonlinear softening configuration (right hand side configuration of Figure 4(b)) for different gaps: = 20 mm (solid line), = 15 mm (dotted line), = 10 mm (dashed line).
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