This paper is concerned with a new fully adaptive control scheme for vibration isolation using a semi-active MR damper installed between ground and first floor, which is composed of two adaptive controllers. One is an adaptive inverse controller which can give necessary input voltage to MR damper so as to generate specified reference damping force to be acted on a controlled structure. The inpu...

The present article seek to investigate the function of elliptical steel damper function in steel frames seismic resisting. The elliptical damper is a kind of earthquake energy dissipater in structure which acts based on the steel yielding feature. Thus, this damper in frame lateral displacement mechanism is expected to have a satisfying hysteretic behavior in terms of energy absorption is on a...

The dynamic stability of a composite plate with external electrorheological (ER) damper subjected to an axial periodic load is investigated. Electrorheological fluids are a class of smart materials, which exhibit reversible changes in mechanical properties when subjected to an electric field. As a result, the dynamic behavior of the structure is changed. The ER damper is used for suppressing th...

Original scientific paper Intelligent bionic leg (IBL) controlled by magneto-rheological (MR) damper is an advanced prosthesis. The structure of human knee joint and torque control methods of IBL knee joint are analysed. The bionic design of IBL with MR damper is introduced. The transfer function of IBL is gained by system identification and parameter tuning of PID control based on genetic algo...

This paper is devoted to the problem of finding optimized parameter combinations of automotive damper modules. Different cost functions using the amplitude spectrum of the excitation and the frequency response function of the car model will be investigated and it is shown that for three different arbitrary road excitations there exists a parameter combination of top mount stiffness, piston rod ...

This paper discusses a methodology of semi-active structural control using a variable friction damper. The presented algorithm is quite simple and straightforward, in which only the slip level of the friction damper is controlled in response to the interstory response velocity of the damperinstalled story so as to maintain the target constant ductility factor. In conducting control there is adv...

The present study focusses on the damping force control of shear mode magnetorheological (MR) damper for seismic mitigations. Therefore, the semi-active MR damper which can control the vibration is analyzed both experimentally and numerically. Carbonyl iron is used as the magnetic particle and Castrol Magnetec oil as carrier fluid throughout the study. MR damper is designed and fabricated, and ...

Long stroke and nanometer precision positioning technology based on dual stage has important applications in the fields of ultra precision machinery and equipment, which consists of a coarse stage for long stroke and a fine one for high precision. In order to further suppress the positioning noise of dual stage, we design an abdominal and passive damper for the fine stage. However, it becomes a...

In this paper, an in-wheel vibration absorber for In-wheel-motor electric vehicle (IWM EV) is designed, and a comprehensive control strategy of in-wheel absorber and vehicle suspension is proposed to improve vehicle ride comfort. The proposed in-wheel vibration absorber, designed for suppressing the motor vibration, is composed of a spring and a controllable damper. The values of in-wheel sprin...

A method of active vibration control using regenerated vibration energy, i.e., the self-powered active vibration control is proposed. In this system, vibration energy is regenerated with an electric generator ,which is called energy regenerative damper, and is stored in a condenser. An actuator attains active vibration control using the energy stored in the condenser. A variable resistance is u...