The nonlinear behavior of semi-active magneto-rheological (MR) absorbers should be described for improving control algorithms. Also, overheating in the working conditions MR absorber due to current excitation and high damping velocity seriously changes characteristic fluid causes problems controllability. relationship between performance temperature must defined algorithms that when used a syst...

In this paper, optimal design of hybrid low damping base isolation and magnetorheological (MR) damper has been studied. Optimal hybrid base isolation system has been designed to minimize the maximum base drift of low damping base isolation system where for solving the optimization problem, genetic algorithm (GA) has been used. In design procedure the maximum acceleration of the structure has ...

Based on theoretical analysis and experiments, this article proposes a new model for a magnetorheological (MR) damper. The proposed model with a smooth and concise form can interpret the bi-viscous and hysteretic behaviors of the MR damper very well. The parameters in the model have definite physical meanings. The bi-viscous and hysteretic behaviors can be characterized by two parameters 0 and ...

This paper is concerned with efficient integration of bilinear H∞ control and adaptive inverse control to attain vibration isolation of structure installed with a semi-active MR damper in which its damping force is controllable by input voltage. The structure with MR damper is expressed by a bilinear dynamic equation. The role of the bilinear H∞ controller is to provide the desired damping forc...

A method for training patterns validation for modelling MR damper is proposed. The method was validated with two models based on black-box and semi-phenomenological approaches. An input pattern that allows a better identification of the MR damper model was found. Including a frequency modulated displacement and increased clock period in the training pattern, the MR damper model fitting is impro...

The paper is concerned with stable adaptive schemes for semi-active control of suspension systems, which can deal with uncertainties in a nonlinear model of MR damper. To compensate for unknown nonlinear hysteresis dynamics of the MR damper, an adaptive inverse controller is implemented by indirect and direct methods. In the indirect method, on-line identification of a forward model of MR dampe...

Magneto-rheological fluids (MRF) are suspensions of particles which can be magnetized. MRF exhibit fast, strong and reversible changes in their rheological properties when a magnetic field is applied. A commercially available damping system that takes full advantage of the controllable technology of MRF and delivers valveless damping control appeared on passenger vehicles in 2003. Further comme...

Modeling of magneto-rheological dampers to be used in semi-active control of civil engineering structures is addressed. The behavior of this kind of dampers is modeled through a first order Lugre dynamic friction model whose structure is analytically simpler than other dynamic friction models used in the literature. With this structure real-time parametric identification of the magneto-rheologi...

Most current seatbelt load limiter technologies could only offer three or fewer predetermined patterns of seatbelt restraint force. However, researches have shown that, to better realize adaptive protection to different occupants under different crash severities, a continuously and real-time adjustable load limiter may be one step further. This concept could be especially favorable to vulnerabl...

Magnetorheological (MR) dampers have received a great deal of attention due to their being a potential technology to conduct semi-active vibration control and it has become vitally important to describe the dynamic responses of these devices in an effective manner in order to develop successful control algorithms. To this end, a considerable effort has been devoted in the literature to study th...