Magnetorheological fluid technology has gained significant development during the past decades. The application of magnetorheological fluids has grown rapidly in civil engineering, safety engineering, transportation, and life science with the development of magnetorheological fluid–based devices, especially magnetorheological fluid dampers. The magnetorheological fluid dampers could offer an outstanding capability in semiactive vibration control due to excellent dynamical features such as fast response, environmentally robust characteristics, large force capacity, low power consumption, and simple interfaces between electronic input and mechanical output. To address the fast growing demand on magnetorheological fluid damping technology in extensive engineering practices, the state-of-the-art development is presented in this article, which provides a comprehensive review on the structure design and its analysis of magnetorheological fluid dampers (or systems). This can be regarded as a useful complement to...

Magnetorheological fluid dampers: A review on structure design and analysis

Vehicle system dynamics integration encompasses interdisciplinary challenges innovations in various aspects related to vehicle system/subsystems/components dynamic characteristics, modeling and validation, vehicle dynamics state measurement and estimation, vehicle/chassis control systems, coordination of power management and dynamics/stability control, etc [1-4]. These are becoming more critical due to the increasing concern and rapid development in electric and hybrid vehicles, which tend to exhibit different vehicle dynamics/stability and control characteristics when compared to conventional vehicles.

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An adaptive unsaturated bistable stochastic resonance method and its application in mechanical fault diagnosis

Smart materials are kinds of designed materials whose properties are controllable with the application of external stimuli such as the magnetic field, electric field, stress, and heat. Smart materials whose rheological properties are controlled by externally applied magnetic field are known as magneto-rheological materials. Magneto-rheological materials actively used for engineering applications include fluids, foams, grease, elastomers, and plastomers. In the last two decades, magneto-rheological materials have gained great attention of researchers significantly because of their salient controllable properties and potential applications to various fields such as automotive industry, civil environment, and military sector. This article offers a recent progressive review on the magneto-rheological materials technology, especially focusing on numerous application devices and systems utilizing magneto-rheological materials. Conceivable limitations, challenges, and comparable advantages of applying these magn...

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An improved Artificial Neural Network using Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm for damage assessment in FGM composite plates

This paper presents performance characteristics of a new type of direct drive valve (DDV) system driven by a piezostack actuator. The flexible beam mechanism is employed to amplify the output displacement from the piezostack actuator. After describing the operational principle of the proposed piezo DDV system, the governing equation of the whole piezo DDV system is then obtained by integrating the equations of the valve components. Based on the proposed model, significant structural components of the piezo DDV system are designed in order to achieve operational requirements (operating frequency: over 100 Hz; flow rate: 20 liter/Min.). An optimal design method is proposed for obtaining the geometry of the flexible beam mechanism by considering spool displacement, required operating frequency, and available space of the valve. After deciding the specific geometric dimensions of the piezo DDV system, a PID control algorithm is designed to enforce the spool position to the desired position trajectories by act...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1155/2013/986812

Design and Evaluation of a Direct Drive Valve Actuated by Piezostack Actuator

Magnetorheological (MR) dampers have been widely investigated and proposed for vibration mitigation systems because they possess continuous variability of damping coefficient in response to different operating conditions. In the conventional design of MR dampers, a separate controller and power supply are required, causing an increment of complexity and cost, which are not suitable for home appliances like washing machines. To solve these issues and to reuse wasted energy from vibration of washing machines, in this study, a self-powered shear-mode MR damper, which integrates MR damping and energy-harvesting technologies into a single device, is proposed. The MR damper is composed of an inner housing, on which magnetic coils are wound directly, and an outer housing for covering and creating a closed magnetic circuit of the damper. The gap between the inner housing and the moving shaft is filled with MR fluid to produce the damping force. The energy-harvesting part consists of permanent magnets fastened together on the shaft and induction coils wound directly on slots of the housing. The induced power from the induction coils is directly applied to the excitation coils of the damping part to generate a corresponding damping force against the vibration. In order to achieve optimal geometry of the self-powered MR damper, an optimization for both the damping part and the energy harvesting part of the proposed dampers are conducted based on ANSYS finite element analysis. From optimal solutions, a prototype of the proposed damper is designed in detail, manufactured, and experimentally validated.

Development of a Magnetorheological Damper with Self-Powered Ability for Washing Machines

In this paper, novel configurations of a compact and high damping force engine mount featuring magnetorheological fluid (MRF) is proposed and analyzed. In the mount, a MR valve structure with both annular and radial flows is employed to generate a high damping force. Firstly, several configurations of the MR mount are proposed. The MRF flows in the mount are then analyzed and the governing equations of the MR mount are then derived based on Bingham plastic behaviour of the MRF. Optimal design of the proposed MR mount is then considered. In the optimization, the objective is to find out the optimal structure of the MR mount that can generate a maximum damping force while the off-state force of the mount is constrained in such a manner that the force ratio of the mount is greater than a required value. Performance of the optimized MR mount is then evaluated based on finite element analysis and validated by experimental results.

Development of High Damping Magneto-Rheological Mount for Ship Engines

In this work, a new configuration of magnetorheological brakes (MRBs) is developed in order to improve the compactness, manufacturing accuracy and cost of conventional ones. In the conventional configuration of MRBs, the coil is normally wound on a nonmagnetic bobbin which is placed on the stationary housing. This causes difficulties in manufacturing and the bottle-neck problem of the magnetic circuit of the MRBs. In the proposed configuration, the nonmagnetic bobbin is eliminated and the coil is wound directly on a magnetic bobbin which is a part of the housing. In this case, the magnetic bobbin part should be designed with a contractive cross-section in order to prevent magnetic flux going through and thus forcing the magnetic flux across the MR fluid (MRF) duct. After proposing the new configurations of MRBs, the modelling of the MRBs is performed based on the Bingham rheological model of the MRF. An optimal design of the proposed MRBs and conventional MRBs is then performed based on finite element analysis of the magnetic circuit of the MRBs. A comparative work between the optimal parameters of the proposed MRBs and the conventional MRBs is conducted and the advanced performance characteristics of the proposed MRBs are then investigated. In addition, experiments on both the conventional and the proposed MRBs are performed to validate the advanced performance characteristics of the proposed MRBs.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0964-1726/22/10/105030/pdf

The impact of bobbin material and design?on magnetorheological brake performance

This work presents both the static and dynamic models for a new type of jetting dispenser featuring a piezostack actuator, which is applicable to electronic packaging assembly After describing the configuration of the dispensing mechanism and operational principle of the proposed piezostack-driven jetting dispenser, a static modelling for mechanical part is analysed by considering the piezostack behaviour, fluid compressibility, and structural deflection Both linear and non-linear behaviours of the structural plate are analysed and incorporated The dynamic modelling of the mechanical part is also performed by considering the dynamic behaviour of the piston and needle After optimizing the design parameters, such as piston radius and so on, the behaviour of the needle motion is obtained and checked for adhesive dispensing applicability In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed static and dynamic models, an experimental test is undertaken by showing needle displacement

Quoc Hung Nguyen

Papers

Design and Evaluation of a Direct Drive Valve Actuated by Piezostack Actuator

Development of a Magnetorheological Damper with Self-Powered Ability for Washing Machines

Development of High Damping Magneto-Rheological Mount for Ship Engines

The impact of bobbin material and design?on magnetorheological brake performance

Design of a new mechanism for jetting dispenser featuring piezoactuator