As the vibration of high speed train becomes fierce when the train runs at high speed, it is crucial to develop a novel suspension system to negotiate train’s vibration. This paper presents a novel suspension based on Magnetorheological fluid (MRF) damper and MRF based smart air spring. The MRF damper is used to generate variable damping while the smart air spring is used to generate field-depe...

In this paper the performance of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Adaptive NeuroFuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) in simulating the inverse dynamic behavior of MagnetoRheological (MR) dampers is investigated. MR dampers are one of the most applicable methods in semi active control of seismic response of structures. Various mathematical models are introduced to simulate the dynamic behavior o...

The purpose of this study was to solve the problem that damping rubber or silicone oil torsional dampers used in crankshafts is not adjustable and cannot effectively control vibration at different resonant frequencies. Based on controlled rheological properties magnetorheological (MR) smart materials, designed a new type variable MR damper (MRTD) proposed semi-active method crankshaft under mul...

The paper presents an extension of the mixed Sky-hook and ADD to MagnetoRheological dampers. Firstly, a semi-active automotive suspension equipped with a nonlinear Magneto-Rheological damper is introduced. The interest of this nonlinear model is that the bi-viscous and hysteretic behaviors of MR dampers can be taken into account in the controller design. Hence, the designed controller is more a...

This paper investigates the performance of the semiactive control system based on magnetorheological fluid (MR) dampers for suppressing excessive vibration of stay cable installed in cable-stayed bridges under wind load. The cable model is extracted from a 156.3 m long stay cable with high tension. The external wind load is generated from the widely used wind load spectrum such as the Kaimal sp...

To compensate for missing functions of lower extremity amputees, this paper proposes a model of an intelligent bionic leg semi-actively controlled by a magnetorheological damper (MRD). A mechanical structure of the leg is designed, and with the help of Bouc-Wen model, a MRD forward dynamics model is constructed for simulation. On the basis of data obtained from simulations, the MRD inverse dyna...

damping of a full-scale cable with a pair of passive–on magnetorheological (mr) dampers was tested. a cable of 215.58m long with the first mode frequency of 0.658hz was tensioned horizontally in cable prefabrication factory. two mr dampers were attached to the cable in an angle in the plane perpendicularly to the cable axis in 5m length from the cable anchorage. the applied voltage level was 0v...

Magnetorheological dampers have raised as promising devices for structural seismic protection since they have many attractive features such as small power requirements, reliability, and relatively low cost. These devices have strongly nonlinear behaviour which is very difficult to characterize. For this reason, the modelling of MR dampers has been an active field during the last years and has p...

This paper presents an alternative solution to the vibration problem in civil engineering structures. This kind of structures are characterized by the uncertainties of the parameters that describe their dynamics, such as stiffness and damping coefficients. Moreover, the actuators used to mitigate the vibrations caused by earthquakes are usually nonlinear devices with frictional or hysteretic dy...