• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.63-68
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• 2004

Recently ER fluids are put to practical use in fluid power industry field. As only with electrical signal change to the valve in which ER fluid flowing, ER fluid flow is controlled, so devepment of simple ER valves have been tried. In this case a technical problem is to check the pressure drop caused from flow rate change in valves because the pressure drop is very small. In this study ER valves are designed and manufactured, and small pressure drop induced from flow rate change is checked by pressure transducer which is made with appling strain gage. The ER valves and pressure drop check method are considered to be applied to the fluid power industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.125-131
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• 2005

The purpose of the present study is to examine the flow characteristics of ER fluids between 2 port and 3 port rectangular tube brass electrodes. ER fluid is made silicon oil mixed with $2-3wt\%$ starch having hydrous particles. Flow visualization of the ER fluids were obtained by CCD camera measuring those of the clusters using an image processing technique. This research found the flow $rate(Q_L)$ with 0 kV /mm, 0.5kV/mm and 1.0kV/mm for $Q_L\;=\;0,\;0$ and $5.73cm^3/s$. When the strength of the electric field increased, the cluster of ER fluids are clearly strong along the rectangular tube and the flow rate(Q) decreased.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.613-619
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• 2022

The extended Maxwell-Wagner polarization model is employed to describe the ER(Electrorheological) behavior of bi-dispersed ER suspensions, and solutions to the equation of motion are obtained by dynamic simulation. Under the same particle volume fraction, it is found that the dynamic yield stresses of uniform size suspensions do not depend on the particle size. Compared with uniform size suspensions, the dynamic yield stress is reduced for ER fluids consisting of two kinds of particles with different sizes. Compared with the dynamic yield stress behavior, for ${\dot{\gamma}}^*$≧0.01 the shear stress shows different behaviors depending on the particle sizes and the raio of different size particles. The simulation results show the nonlinear ER behavior (∆_𝛕 ∝ Eⁿ, n ≈ 1.55) of the conducting particle ER suspensions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.249-253
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• 1995

본 연구에서는 잠재적 응용성이 큰 ER유체와 압전필름을 액튜에이터로 하는 하이브리드형 지능구조물을 제안한 후 능동 진동제어를 실시하였다. 먼저 중공(hollow)의 샌드위치 형태 복합재료(glass/epoxy)보에 ER유체와 압전필름을 각각 삽입과 접착을 하여 하이브리드형 지능구조물을 제작하였다. 그리고 각 매체의 액튜에이팅 특성을 고려하여, ER유체 액튜에이터(ERFA)는 전장부하 함수로 도출되는 구조물의 주파수응답을 특징으로 하였고, 압전필름 액튜에이터(PFA)는 신경 슬라이딩 모드 제어기 (neuro sliding mode controller : NSC)를 적용하였다. 이 두 액튜에이터가 동시에 작동하는 능동 진동제어계를 실험적으로 구현한 후 과도응답과 강제 응답에 대한 진동제어 성능을 단일 액튜에이터 작동시와 비교 고찰하여 제시된 하이브리드 액튜에이팅의 효과를 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.321-324
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• 2002

Hydraulic valve control the pressure and the How of fluid by the hydraulic oil transfered from pump but the ER fluid consists of solid particles of micrometer in size and insulating oil so in the general hydraulic valve. We invented ER-Valve using ER fluid as working fluid. The ER fluid, working fluid of ER-Valve is a functional fluid to represent the feature of fluid according to strength of electric field. In this research we made our own 4 types of plate type ER-Valve which has same surface but different width and length and then we conducted performance test. We measured flow rate and pressure drop of fluid which is flowing in the ER-Valve according to the electric field strength to conduct this test. We modeling ER-Valve relating to ER-Valve system and yield shear stress according to the strength of electric field. We used the pressure drop according to the strength of electric field by differential pressure gauge in the our own made ER-Valve. This test reviewed experimental the special changes of ER-Fluid in the steady flow condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.27-36
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• 2003

The Electro-Rheological (ER) fluid has been used to the ultraprecision polishing of single crystal silicon as new polishing slurry whose properties such as yield stress and particle structure changed with the application of an electric field. In this work, it is aimed to find the effective parameters in the ER fluid on material removal in the polishing system whose structure is similar to that of the simple hydrodynamic bearing. The generated pressure in the gap between a moving wall and a workpiece, as well as the electric field-induced stress of the mixture of ER fluid-abrasives, is evaluated experimentally, and their influence on the polishing of single crystal silicon is analyzed. Moreover, the behavior of abrasive and ER particles is described.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.37-45
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• 2002

This paper presents the field-dependent Bingham characteristics and damping force control of an electro-rheological (ER) fluid under squeeze mode operation. The squeeze force of the ER fluid due to the imposed electric field is analyzed and an appropriate size of the disk-type electrode is devised. On the basis of the theoretical model of the ER fluid under squeeze mode operation, the yield stress and response speed of the ER fluid are distilled from the time responses of squeeze force to the step electric potentials. Measured squeeze forces under various excitation conditions are compared with the predicted ones from Bingham model and time constant obtained at the transient response test. In addition, the controllability of the field-dependent damping force of the ER fluid under squeeze mode is experimentally demonstrated by implementing simple PID controller.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.126-134
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 회전운동을 제어하기 위한 새로운 작동기로서 전기장에 대하여 매우 빠른 응답특성을 갖고 있는 두 쌍의 실린더형 ER(electro-rheological) 클러치/브레이크 작동기를 제안하였다. 자체조성 된 ER유체의 빙햄특성 모델을 실험적으로 도출하였으며, 이와 연계한 작동기 모델을 구성하여 전기장에 따른 전달 및 제동 토크를 해석한 후 알맞은 크기의 클러치/브레이크 작동기를 제작하였다. 제작된 작동기의 동적특성(시상수 등)을 작동기 모델에 고려하기 위하여 계단입력 전기장에 따른 과도응답 실험을 클러치와 브레이크 모드에서 각각 수행하였다. 제안된 작동기의 응용성을 보이기 위하여 두쌍의 작동기로 구동되는 실험실 차원의 소형 와권식 세탁기 시스템을 구성한 후 동적지배방정식을 유도하다. 각 작동기와 연계된 PID제어기를 설계하여 세탁과 탈수시의 회전운동을 제어하였으며, 부하질량의 변화에 대한 작동기 시스템의 제어 효율성과 장시간 운전을 통한 제어 내구성 실험을 수행하였다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.285-291
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• 2009

In this work, durability characteristics of electrorheological (ER) fluid for damper application are experimentally investigated. ER fluid is prepared by using phosphorated starch particles and silicone oil. The field-dependent Bingham characteristics and response time for the proposed ER fluids are experimentally obtained. Experimental apparatus of durability test for ER fluid is established with cylindrical ER cylinder for mid-sized passenger vehicle. In order to evaluate the durability characteristics of ER fluid as a function of time, damping force and temperature variations are measured until one million cycles. After durability test, Bingham characteristics and response time of ER fluid are measured and compared to the initial properties. Microscopic pictures of ER fluid are taken to validate the changes of properties. The results indicate that the ER fluid can be commercially utilized in vehicle damper system with its durability performance. Moreover, the understanding of durability characteristics is essential to predict the service life of ER fluid as well as to design its applications.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.612-618
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• 2003

A hybrid vibration control scheme using ER fluid and PZT patches is proposed. Dynamic characteristics of the beam embedded with the ER fluid can be controled by changing the strength of the electric field applied on the ER fluid, thus provides a mean to avoid the resonance. It was found that active vibration control of the structure embedded with ER fluid failed to suppress the vibration excited with broad band frequency due to the limited change of the dynamic characteristics of the structure. To compensate this limited effect of the control scheme with ER fluid alone, PPF control using PZT patches as sensors and actuators is added to construct a hybrid controller. Experimental results suggests that proposed hybrid controller is effective to suppress the additional resonance vibration that appears when each controller is used alone.