Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers (한국공작기계학회논문집)

The Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers (한국생산제조학회)
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Study on Flow Characteristics of Electro-Rheological Fluids with Electric Field Control

전기장으로 제어되는 ER유체의 유동특성에 관한 연구

  • 윤신일 (경남대학교 기계자동화공학부) ;
  • 장성철 (경남대학교 기계자동화공학부) ;
  • 이해수 (경남대학교 대학원 기계자동화공학부)
  • Published : 2005.10.01
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Abstract

An experimental Investigation was performed to study the characteristics of Electro-Rheological fluid flow in a horizontal rectangular tube with or without D.C electric field control. First, the microscopic behavior of the ER suspension structure between rectangular tube brass electrodes for the stationary ER nut(i and flow of the ER fluid was investigated by flow visualization. The flow of the ER fluid between fluid rectangular tube was solved experimental using the constitutive equation for a Bingham fluid. ER fluid is made silicon oil mixed with $0.2wt\%$ starch having hydrous particles. Velocity distributions of the ER fluids were obtained by particle image velocimetry measuring those of the clusters using an image processing technique.

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