Performance Of Magnetorheological Damper Research Articles

Simulation and experimental evaluation of a vane-type magnetorheological damper based on multi-physics field coupling

This work aims to accurately evaluate the nonlinear behaviors of the vane-type magnetorheological (MR) damper through multi-physics field coupling analysis. The working principle of the vane-type MR damper is introduced, and the output torsion model is derived. Considering that the performance of the MR damper is affected by the coupling of electromagnetic field, flow field, thermal field, and solid mechanics, the finite element software COMSOL is used to simulate the multi-physics field inside the MR damper. Correspondingly, the mechanical performance testing of the MR damper is carried out on the torsional electro-hydraulic servo fatigue testing machine. The test results show that the MR damper can reach a maximum output torsion of 7130 N·m and achieves a high torsion-volume ratio of 4.19 × 107 N·m−2, which proves that it has good mechanical properties as well as the ability to satisfy high torsional requirements in relatively limited space. Finally, a comparative analysis between the simulation and experimental curves is carried out, and it is concluded that the multi-physics field coupling analysis can accurately simulate the mechanical performance and working state of the vane-type MR damper.

A semi-active control system in coupled buildings with base-isolation and magnetorheological dampers using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system

Connecting two buildings has been proved as an effective method of structural control for alleviating seismic responses. Researchers have proposed that two adjacent buildings through supplemental energy dissipating devices to mitigate the buildings’ responses. Numerous researchers have proposed various methods: active, passive, and semi-active control strategies. In Japan, some applications of coupled buildings control have been successfully implemented by utilizing passive and active control technology. Magnetorheological (MR) dampers have been identified as semi-active devices that can be used to reduce the vibration of the seismic structures during various types of ground motions. They can offer the adaptability of active devices, stability, and reliability of passive devices. Nevertheless, one of the difficulties in application of the MR dampers is the development of the appropriate control algorithms. Accordingly, this study presents the implementation of the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) controller for earthquake hazard mitigation under coupled buildings control system with base-isolated building connecting to the free wall by MR dampers. The ANFIS whose training data is based on the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) method is conducted to modify the parameters of the fuzzy logic controller and optimize the fuzzy rules. The performance of MR dampers is evaluated under seismic response. It is compared under four methods, including passive-off, passive-on, and two semi-active control strategies: ANFIS and LQR. Besides, various types of feedback of the ANFIS operated as two-input single output feedback system are investigated to assess the performance of the developed control scheme for structural vibration control. The numerical simulation results show that the proposed semi-active control system consisting of coupled buildings system and MR dampers by utilizing ANFIS can be effective in mitigating seismic responses of structures.

Optimal Allocation and Control of Magnetorheological Dampers for Enhancing Seismic Performance of the Adjacent Structures Using Whale Optimization Algorithm

The control strategy for protecting adjacent structures from earthquake excitations is gaining increasing significance. In this study, to improve the seismic performance, a semiactive control strategy using magnetorheological (MR) dampers to couple the adjacent structures is proposed. In this control strategy, to fully exploit the performance of MR dampers, the allocation (including the locations and the number) and fuzzy logic controller (FLC) system of MR dampers are simultaneously optimally designed by whale optimization algorithm (WOA) with a special encoding scheme. Simulation results verify that WOA provides competitive performance compared with the other three metaheuristic algorithms in terms of solution quality and robustness. Compared with other semiactive control methods including on-off, linear quadratic regulator-clipped voltage law, and WOA-FLC (optimal allocation is not considered) methods, by using much less MR dampers, the proposed control strategy can exhibit more excellent overall performance in terms of reducing the seismic responses and mitigating pounding.

Multi‐objective optimal design and performance of magnetorheological damper

AbstractIn order to solve the problems of high power consumption and low output damping force of magnetorheological dampers, the relationship model between the structural parameters and the optimization objectives of dampers is established with the low power consumption and lightweight of magnetorheological dampers. The key structural parameters of the magnetorheological damper are optimized by the multi‐objective genetic algorithm, and the optimal solution is obtained, and the optimized magnetorheological damper is tested and studied. The rationality of the selected parameters is verified by experimental study. The results show that the power consumption of magnetorheological dampers is reduced by 43 % and the damping force is increased by 30 % after optimization. There is a balance relationship between the power consumption optimization and the damping force optimization of the damper. Therefore, when finding the optimal solution, we should consider the needs of the actual situation and select the most reasonable parameters.

Magnetorheological damper with multi-grooves on piston for damping force enhancement

Due to low power consumption and fast response, magnetorheological (MR) dampers are widely used in various engineering applications. To enhance the performances, efforts have been made to increase the field dependent force with the same power consumption. However, the fluid viscous force is also increased significantly, which is undesirable in practical use. To tackle this problem, the focus of this paper is to design, simulate, and test an MR damper with multi-grooves (small multiple annular flow gaps) on piston for performance enhancement. First, the detailed design of the proposed MR damper is provided. Then, a coupled field model to describe the characteristics of MR fluid in different regions of MR damper is derived. Based on this model, multiphysics simulations are performed using COMSOL Multiphysics. Parametric analysis of the number and width of multi-grooves is also conducted. Experimental results of the two MR dampers without and with multi-grooves are given and compared with the simulation results. The advantages of MR damper with multi-grooves over the one without multi-grooves and the accuracy of the coupled field model are validated by experiments and simulations. This is the first time that the advantages of MR damper with multi-grooves are validated by experiments. Compared with MR damper without multi-grooves, MR damper with multi-grooves has larger damping force and controllable force range, as well as less increment of fluid viscous force while keeping the same increase of field dependent force. The performance of MR damper with multi-grooves could be further improved by increasing the number and decreasing the width of multi-grooves.

Response of Piping System with Semi-active Magnetorheological Damper under Tri-directional Seismic Excitation

ABSTRACT Seismic loads on piping system due to earthquakes can cause excessive vibrations, which can lead to serious instability resulting in damage or complete failure of piping system. Vibrations in the piping system can be reduced using passive control, active control, semiactive control and hybrid control. In this paper, semi-active magnetorheological (MR) dampers have been studied to mitigate seismic response and vibration control in piping system used in the process industries, fossil and fissile fuel power plant. The performance of MR dampers using various control algorithms is explored. A study is also conducted on the performance of control due to variation in the command voltage of MR dampers. The effectiveness of the MR dampers in terms of the reduction in responses, namely, displacements, accelerations and base shear of the piping system are compared with uncontrolled and passive controlled responses. This study is carried out under four artificial earthquake motions with increasing amplitudes in all the three directions of motion. The analytical results demonstrate that the MR dampers under particular optimum parameters are very effective and practically implementable for the seismic response mitigation, vibration control and seismic requalification of piping system.

Mathematical modeling and experimental evaluation of a prototype double-tube Magnetorheological damper

The performance of Magnetorheological dampers should be analyzed to study the stability of Magnetorheological fluid and its configuration. To this end, in this study a prototype Magnetorheological fluid is presented. The fluid consists of stabilized Silicone dioxide (SiO2) nanoparticles, Stearic acid, Phosphoric acid and micron-sized soft ferromagnetic carbonyl iron particles. To assure the authentic performance, sedimentation and magneto-rheometry tests are conducted. Also, a prototype of double-tube Magnetorheological damper with double magnetic components is fabricated by using the mentioned magnetorheological fluid characteristics. Damping force measurement test is carried out to measure the damping force in various electrical currents. The Kwok model is employed to examine the analytical model predictions against the experiments. Furthermore, a general evolution is presented using the neural network algorithm. It is demonstrated that the damping force in saturated current is almost five times higher than in the zero current. In addition, the derived evolution for the damping force has a high performance to predict the response of the Magnetorheological damper in other electrical currents.

Optimization of Magneto-Rheological Damper for Maximizing Magnetic Flux Density in the Fluid Flow Gap Through FEA and GA Approaches

A magneto rheological (MR) fluid damper offers cost effective solution for semiactive vibration control in an automobile suspension. The performance of MR damper is significantly depends on the electromagnetic circuit incorporated into it. The force developed by MR fluid damper is highly influenced by the magnetic flux density induced in the fluid flow gap. In the present work, optimization of electromagnetic circuit of an MR damper is discussed in order to maximize the magnetic flux density. The optimization procedure was proposed by genetic algorithm and design of experiments techniques. The result shows that the fluid flow gap size less than 1.12 mm cause significant increase of magnetic flux density.

Study of magnetorheological fluids towards smart energy absorption of composite structures for crashworthiness

ABSTRACTA study of magnetorheological fluids energy absorption capability towards development of composite retrofit technologies for aged helicopters is presented in this article. Design parameters that influence the performance of magnetorheological dampers were identified and evaluated based on the damping force as a measure of compatibility to energy absorption. Tensile, compression, and cyclic loading tests were also conducted experimentally to validate the numerical investigation. An extensive parametric study conveyed that the piston head radius plays a major role in achieving higher damping force. The fundamental behaviors and results of the damping force in the numerical studies were also in a good agreement with the experimental results. The novel parametric numerical analysis framework validated in this article will allow for efficient design and optimization of future dampers.Received 2 August 2013 Accepted 9 January 2015

Magnetic circuit optimization in designing Magnetorheological damper

This paper presents the materials analysis for combination of working modes of Magnetorheological (MR) damper. The materials were selected based on the optimum magnetic field strength at the effective areas in order to obtain a better design of MR damper. The design of electromagnetic circuit is one of the critical criteria in designing MR dampers besides the working mechanism and the types of MR damper. The increase in the magnetic field strength is an indication of the improvement in the damping performance of the MR damper. Eventually, the experimental test was performed under quasi-static loading to observe the performances of MR damper in shear mode, squeeze mode and mixed mode. The results showed that the increment of forces was obtained with the increased current due to higher magnetic flux density generated by electromagnetic coils. In general, it can be summarized that the combination of modes generates higher forces than single mode for the same experimental parameters throughout the study.

Large‐scale real‐time hybrid simulation of a three‐story steel frame building with magneto‐rheological dampers

SUMMARYA series of large‐scale real‐time hybrid simulations (RTHSs) are conducted on a 0.6‐scale 3‐story steel frame building with magneto‐rheological (MR) dampers. The lateral force resisting system of the prototype building for the study consists of moment resisting frames and damped brace frames (DBFs). The experimental substructure for the RTHS is the DBF with the MR dampers, whereas the remaining structural components of the building including the moment resisting frame and gravity frames are modeled via a nonlinear analytical substructure. Performing RTHS with an experimental substructure that consists of the complete DBF enables the effects of member and connection component deformations on system and damper performance to be accurately accounted for. Data from these tests enable numerical simulation models to be calibrated, provide an understanding and validation of the in‐situ performance of MR dampers, and a means of experimentally validating performance‐based seismic design procedures for real structures. The details of the RTHS procedure are given, including the test setup, the integration algorithm, and actuator control. The results from a series of RTHS are presented that includes actuator control, damper behavior, and the structural response for different MR control laws. The use of the MR dampers is experimentally demonstrated to reduce the response of the structure to strong ground motions. Comparisons of the RTHS results are made with numerical simulations. Based on the results of the study, it is concluded that RTHS can be conducted on realistic structural systems with dampers to enable advancements in resilient earthquake resistant design to be achieved. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Modelling and Testing of Magnetorheological Damper

The working principle of a flow pattern magnetorheological(MR) damper is introduced. The fluid dynamic analysis is done based on Bingham plastic model and fluid motion differential equation, and then the mathematical model of MR damper is established. The charts of damping-displacement characteristic and damping-velocity characteristic are obtained during the experiment. The model coefficients are identified based on test results, and then the simplified mechanical model is established. Results show that the applied current has direct relation with MR Damper performance but it gives best results when applied current is less than 0.8 A. The difference between damping force experimental values and the calculated value is observed about 100 N, and the difference of 19% is observed. The simplified mechanical model can describe the basic mechanical properties of the MR damper.

가상 동흡진기를 고려한 우등버스용 MR댐퍼의 제어 시뮬레이션

In this study, a control method of MR(magneto-rheological) damper for a cruise bus is investigated. A virtual dynamic damper and a sky-hook algorithm are employed to control the damping characteristics of MR damper. Coefficients for a virtual dynamic damper are determined through the parameter identification. A quarter car model of a cruise bus is established by using ADAMS/Car program for the computer simulation. Sine wave excitation and random excitation are used to compare the controlled MR damper with the passive damper. From the simulation results, the performance of MR damper with a virtual dynamic damper is better than that of the passive damper.

Optimal semi-active preview control response of a half car vehicle model with magnetorheological damper

The control of the stationary response of a half car vehicle model moving with a constant velocity over a rough road with magnetorheological (MR) dampers is considered. The MR damper is modelled by the modified Bouc–Wen model. The MR damper parameters adopted in the vehicle model correspond to an actual fabricated damper and are determined so that the MR damper model characteristics match with experimental characteristics. The random road excitation is considered as the output of a first-order linear shaping filter to white noise excitation. The control and response statistics of the nonlinear vehicle model with MR damper are obtained using the equivalent linearization method in an iterative manner and the results are verified by Monte-Carlo simulation. The MR damper performance is sought to be improved by suitable choice of input currents to the levels of performance of an active suspension based on H ∞ control without and with preview by a mean square equivalence of respective control forces. The H ∞ optimal control with preview minimizes a performance index which is a weighted sum of vehicle performance measures such as sprung mass acceleration, pitch acceleration, front and rear suspension strokes, road holding and control forces with the weights obtained by solving a multi-objective optimization problem using a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA II).

Vehicle Evaluation of the Performance of Magneto Rheological Dampers for Heavy Truck Suspensions

This study is intended to complement many existing analytical studies in the area of semiactive suspensions by providing a field evaluation of semiactive magneto rheological (MR) primary suspensions for heavy trucks. A set of four controllable MR dampers are fabricated and used experimentally to test the effectiveness of a semiactive skyhook suspension on a heavy truck. In order to evaluate the performance of the semiactive suspensions, the performance of the truck equipped with the MR dampers is primarily compared with the performance of the truck equipped with the stock passive dampers. The performance of the semiactive system and the original passive system are compared for two different driving conditions. First, the truck is driven over a speed bump at approximately 8–11 kmh (5–7 mph) in order to establish a comparison between the performance of the MR and stock dampers to transient inputs at the wheels. Second, the truck is driven along a stretch of relatively straight and level highway at a constant speed of 100 kmh (62 mph) in order to compare the performance of the two types of dampers in steady state driving conditions. Acceleration data for both driving conditions are analyzed in both time and frequency domains. The data for the speed bumps indicate that the magneto rheological dampers used (with the skyhook control policy) in this study have a small effect on the vehicle body and wheel dynamics, as compared to the passive stock dampers. The highway driving data shows that magneto rheological dampers and the skyhook control policy are effective in reducing the root mean square (RMS) of the measured acceleration at most measurement points, as compared to the stock dampers.