“…Cantilevered structural elements are present in a wide range of mechanical systems and civil structures [6,9,17,19,33,56]. They can be found in numerous engineering applications including, but not limited to, vibration energy harvesters, micro-gyroscopes, electromechanical systems, bio-inspired propulsion, and piezoelectric sensors and actuators [1,7,24,31,40,43,55,59].…”