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Design and Performance Evaluation of MR Damper for Integrated Isolation Mount (통합제진마운트용 MR 댐퍼의 설계 및 성능 평가)

  • Seong, Min-Sang;Lim, Seung-Gu;Choi, Seung-Bok;Kim, Cheol-Ho;Woo, Je-Kwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1046-1051
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents design and performance evaluation of magnetorheological(MR) damper for integrated isolation mount. The MR damper needs two functions for the integrated isolation mount. The one is vibration absorption and the other is isolation of vibration transmission. For vibration absorption, the MR damper requires wide damping force range. And for isolation of vibration transmission, the friction of MR damper needs to be eliminated. In order to achieve this goal, a novel type of MR damper is originally designed in this work. Subsequently, the MR damper is mathematically modeled and its damping force characteristics are evaluated. In addition, the vibration control performance of the MR damper associated with the stage mass is evaluated. From the result, this paper evaluates the performance of MR damper for integrated isolation mount.

Control simulation of MR damper for a cruise bus including the virtual dynamic damper (가상 동흡진기를 고려한 우등버스용 MR댐퍼의 제어 시뮬레이션)

  • Park, S.J.;Sohn, J.H.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2011
  • 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.

A Study on the Application of the Cutout Piston for the Improvement of the MR Damper's Control Effect (MR 댐퍼의 제어 효과 향상을 위한 Cutout 피스톤 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyuk;Bae, Jae-Sung;Hwang, Jai-Hyuk;Hong, Yeh-Sun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.506-513
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    • 2011
  • This paper is concerned with a study on the control effect of the MR damper using the cutout piston. The MR damper has passive damping force by the oil pressure and controllable damping force by the magnetic effect. As the velocity of the MR damper's piston increases the passive damping force increases and the ratio of the controllable damping force to the total damping force is decreased. Consequently, the control performance of the MR damper is reduced according to the increase of the velocity. In this paper, the cutout piston concept is applied to the MR damper to improve MR damper's control performance by reducing the passive damping effect. The MR damper with the cutout piston has been designed and manufactured and its hydraulic and electromagnetic analysis has been performed to predict its performance. The control performances of the MR damper with the cutout piston are verified through the comparison of experiment results and simulation results.

Performance Evaluation of Response-Dependent MR Damper (응답 의존형 MR 감쇠기의 성능 평가)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Min, Kyung-Won;Youn, Kyung-Jo
    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.511-518
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    • 2006
  • In this study, seismic response mitigation effect of an MR damper generating response-dependent frictional force is investigated. It has been reported in previous studies that passively operated MR damper with constant input current doesn't show better control performance than semi-active MR damper with varying input current calculated by control algorithms such as linear quadratic regulator and sliding mode control. However, in order to operate the MR damper semi-actively, other control systems besides the damper itself such as sensors for measuring structural responses and controller for calculating optimal input current are necessary, which deteriorate the economical efficiency. This study presents a MR damper generating frictional force of which magnitude is controlled in accordance to the displacement and velocity transferred to the damper. Numerical analyses results indicate that the performance of the response dependent MR damper is closely related with the range of the friction force and it can be designed to short better control performance than the passive MR damper.

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Characteristics and Dynamic Modeling of MR Damper for Semi-active Vibration Control (준능동 진동 제어를 위한 MR 감쇠기의 동적 모델링을 통한 특성분석)

  • Heo, Gwang-Hee;Jeon, Seung-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.61-69
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    • 2013
  • This research is aimed to evaluate characteristics and dynamic modeling of MR damper for semi-active vibration control. A MR damper of semi-active type was designed and made for the purpose of controlling the vibration of a real-size model structure. Usually a semi-active control system equipped with a MR damper requires a dynamic model which expresses numerical data about the damping capacity and dynamic characteristics generated by a MR damper. To fulfil the requirement, a Power model and a Bingham model were particularly employed among many dynamic models of MR damper. Those models being contrasted with other ones, a dynamic test was carried out on the developed MR damper. In the test, excitation frequencies were conditioned to be 0.15 Hz, 1.0 Hz, and 2.0 Hz, and three different currents were adopted for each frequency. From these test results, it was found that displacement affected control capacity of the MR damper. The test results led to the identification of model variables for each dynamic model, on the basis of which a force-speed relation curve and expected damping force were derived and contrasted to those of the developed MR damper. Therefore, it was proven that the MR damper designed and made in this research was effective as a semi-active controller, and also that displacement of 2mm at minimum was found to be secured for vibration control, through the test using various displacements.

Modeling and Vibration Control of Small-sized Magneto-rheological Damper (소형 MR 댐퍼의 모델링 및 진동제어)

  • Lee, Jong-Woo;Seong, Min-Sang;Woo, Je-Kwan;Choi, Seung-Bok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.344-349
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a new small-sized damper featuring magneto-rheological (MR) fluid which can be applied to vibration control system. The proposed MR damper consists of cylinder, piston, a couple of bearings, oil-seals and magnetic circuit which has two coils. In this damper, approximately 5cc of MR fluid is used. The damping force of the MR damper is designed to be followed by linear shear-mode Bingham-plastic model. In order to verify the performance of the MR damper, an experimental apparatus is established. In the experimental test, the damping force of the MR damper is measured with respect to time, displacement and velocity. In addition, the time response of MR damper is measured when 1A of step current is applied. Finally, The proposed small MR damper is applied to vibration control. In this process, a simple 1-DOF system is modeled and controlled using PID controller.

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Modeling and Vibration Control of Small-sized Magneto-rheological Damper (소형 MR 댐퍼의 모델링 및 진동제어)

  • Lee, Jong-Woo;Seong, Min-Sang;Woo, Je-Kwan;Choi, Seung-Bok
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1121-1127
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a new small-sized damper featuring magneto-rheological(MR) fluid which can be applied to vibration control system. The proposed MR damper consists of cylinder, piston, a couple of bearings, oil-seals and magnetic circuit which has two coils. In this damper, approximately 5cc of MR fluid is used. The damping force of the MR damper is designed to be followed by linear shear-mode Bingham-plastic model. In order to verify the performance of the MR damper, an experimental apparatus is established. In the experimental test, the damping force of the MR damper is measured with respect to time, displacement and velocity. In addition, the time response of MR damper is measured when 1A of step current is applied. Finally, the proposed small MR damper is applied to vibration control. In this process, a simple 1-DOF system is modeled and controlled using PID controller.

Performance Characteristics of Seat Damper Using MR Fluid (MR 유체를 이용한 운전석 댐퍼의 성능특성)

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    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.127-134
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents the development of a semi-active seat damper using MR fluids and the performance analysis of seat suspension system with a MR seat damper. An annular orifice type MR seat damper is proposed for a seat suspension of a commercial vehicle. After formulating the governing equation of motion, then an appropriate size of the seat damper is designed and manufactured. Following the evaluation of field-dependant damping force characteristics, the controllability of the damping force is experimentally demonstrated in time domain by adopting PID controller. A semi-active seat suspension with the proposed MR damper is constructed and its dynamic model is established. Subsequently, vibration control capability of the semi-active suspension system is investigated by employing the sky-hook controller.

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Modeling of MR Damper Landing Gear Considering Incompletely Developed Fluid Flow (불완전 발달 유체 유동을 고려한 MR댐퍼 착륙장치 모델링)

  • Lee, Hyo-Sang;Jang, Dae-Sung;Hwang, Jai-Hyuk
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.7-18
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    • 2021
  • A semi-active MR damper landing gear is a damper that generates a fluid damping force and a magnetic field control damping force when the MR fluid passes through annular flow paths. In the case of MR fluid passing through annular flow paths, an incompletely developed flow inevitably occurs, causing an error in calculating damper inner forces including the fluid damping force. This error results in an inaccurate design of damper structural parameters and control gain selection, resulting in deterioration of dynamic characteristics and shock absorption performance of the landing gear. In this paper, we derived a mathematical model of an MR damper landing gear considering additional damping force generated in the entrance region of annular flow paths of the MR damper. If the mathematical modeling derived from this paper is applied to the design and optimization process of an MR damper landing gear, excellent performance of the MR damper landing gear is expected.

Optimal Design of MR Damper : Analytical Method and Finite Element Method (MR 댐퍼의 최적설계 : 이론적 방법 및 유한요소 방법)

  • Ha, Sung-Hoon;Seong, Min-Sang;Heung, Quoc-Nguyen;Choi, Seung-Bok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.581-586
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents an optimal design of magnetorheological(MR) damper based on analytical methodology and finite element analysis. The proposed MR damper consists of MR valve and gas chamber. The MR valve is constrained in a specific volume and the optimization problem identifies geometric dimensions of the valve structure that maximize the pressure drop of the MR valve or damping force of the MR damper. In this work, the single-coil annular MR valve structure is considered. After describing the schematic configuration and operating principle of MR valve and damper, a quasi-static model is derived based on Bingham model of MR fluid. The magnetic circuit of the valve and damper is then analyzed by applying the Kirchoff’s law and magnetic flux conservation rule. Based on the quasi-static modeling and the magnetic circuit analysis, the optimization problem of the MR valve and damper is built. The optimal solution of the optimization problem of the MR valve structure constrained in a specific volume is then obtained and compared with the solution obtained from finite element method.

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