This paper presents the design, fabrication and evaluation of magneto-rheological damper. Semi-active control devices have received significant attention in recent years because they offer the adaptability of active control devices without requiring the associated large power sources. Magneto-Rheological (MR) dampers are semiactive control devices that use MR fluids to produce controllable damp...

Magneto-rheological damper (MR damper) has been expected to control the response of civil and building structures in recent years, because of its large force capacity and controllable force characteristics. Recent study is to the application of controllable dampers for reducing earthquake response of buildings and/or wind induced sway. The dynamic characteristics of the MR damper have to be cla...

In this research, the effect of shape parameters such as number of magnet wire turns, spools, thickness of the gap, and pole length in a Magneto-rheological (MR) fluid damper is analytically investigated and the optimization of these parameters is done with response surface method (RSM) which is combined Neuro-Fuzzy method and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. Since the electro-magne...

In this study, we consider the vibration mitigation problem for a structural system using a magneto-rheological (MR) damper. For this purpose, through the use of Lyapunov-based design techniques, a nonlinear adaptive controller which can compensate the parametric uncertainties related to both the structural system and the MR damper has been constructed. To overcome effects of the unmeasurable i...

This paper presents an approach to approximate the forward and inverse dynamic behaviours of a magnetorheological (MR) damper using evolving radial basis function (RBF) networks. Due to the highly nonlinear characteristics of MR dampers, modelling of MR dampers becomes a very important problem to their applications. In this paper, an alternative representation of the MR damper in terms of evolv...

The primary purpose of this chapter is to present an approach for developing nonparametric models for magneto-rheological (MR) dampers. Upon describing the approach adopted here, a non-parametric model for a commercial magneto-rheological damper is developed, and is compared with a parametric model from an earlier study. The results show that the proposed non-parametric model can more effective...

For realizing the intelligent vehicle suspension design with magneto-rheological (MR) fluids dampers, extensive laboratory measurements are performed to characterize the symmetric and asymmetric hysteresis force properties of a MR-damper, under a wide range of drive current and harmonic excitation conditions (frequency and stroke). The proposed asymmetric damping force generation (ADFG) algorit...

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...

In the field of Automation, Fuzzy Control Fuzzy control has significant merits which are utilized in intelligent controllers, especially for vibration control systems. This paper is concerned with the application aspects of the developed MR damper for landing gear system, to attenuate the sustained vibrations during the landing phase. Also a comparative study is made on the responses obtained f...

in this study, mass, stiffness and damping matrices of the nosrat jacket; located in persian gulf; equipped with semi active tuned mass damper (satmd) system have been derived after modeling the structure in sacs software. owing to huge number of the degrees of freedom in the model, computation of on-line control of satmd was time consuming. for this purpose, the size of the model was reduced i...