We designed and validated a rotary magnetorheological (MR) damper with a specified damping torque capacity, an unsaturated magnetic flux density (MFD), and a high magnetic field intensity (MFI) for unmanned vehicle suspension systems. In this study, for the rotary type MR damper to have these satisfactory performances, the roles of the sealing location and the cover case curvature of the MR dam...

This article presents the development of a novel magnetorheological damper which has a self-sensing ability. In this study, a linear variable differential sensor, which was based on the electromagnetic induction mechanism, was integrated with a conventional magnetorheological damper. The working principle, configuration, and prototype of the displacement differential self-induced magnetorheolog...

This paper presents results of experiments carried out on free vibrations of a cable with an attached magnetorheological (MR) damper. The attention is focused on the analysis of amplitude dependent damping of a cable with an MR damper operating in passive and controlled modes. In the case of the passive system, damping characteristics are nonlinear and display relevant drawbacks of the system. ...

In this paper, we consider the implementation of a static H∞ output feedback controller to a quarter vehicle suspension system with a semi-active magnetorheological fluid (MRF) damper. Unlike most of the existing literature, all the states in the equation of motion are relative displacements and velocities between sprung, unsprung masses and road disturbance instead, in addition the input to th...

The objective of this paper is to study the performance of a sixth order polynomial approach to model hysteresis behaviour of a magnetorheological (MR) damper under harmonic excitations. The polynomial model is developed based on curve fitting from the experimental results and consists of a pair subsystem namely positive and negative acceleration which correspond to the upper and lower curves. ...

In this study, control performance of a smart base isolation system consisting of a friction pendulum system (FPS) and a magnetorheological (MR) damper has been investigated. A fuzzy logic controller (FLC) is used to modulate the MR damper so as to minimize structural acceleration while maintaining acceptable base displacement levels. To this end, a multi-objective optimization scheme is used t...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique has achieved a considerable success in solving nonlinear, nondifferentiable, multi-modal optimization problems. Currently, PSO is broadly applied in several scientific and engineering optimization applications. This paper introduces an identification of magnetorheological (MR) damper’s parameters using the PSO algorithm to introduce a more simple and ...

The main purpose of this paper is to study various configurations of a magnetorheological (MR) damper valve and to evaluate their performance indices typically dynamic range, valve ratio, inductive time constant and pressure drop. It is known that these performance indices (PI) of the damper depend upon the magnetic circuit design of the valve. Hence, nine valve configurations are considered fo...

In this paper, optimal design of hybrid low damping base isolation and magnetorheological (MR) damper has been studied. Optimal hybrid base isolation system has been designed to minimize the maximum base drift of low damping base isolation system where for solving the optimization problem, genetic algorithm (GA) has been used. In design procedure the maximum acceleration of the structure has ...

——Magnetorheological (MR) dampers are devices that can be used for vibration reduction in structures. However, to use these devices in an effective way, a precise modeling is required. In this sense, in this paper we consider a modied parameter identication method of large-scale magnetorheological dampers which are represented using the normalized BoucWen model. The main benet of the propose...