• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.968-973
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• 2007

This paper presents an electromagnetic design for the magneto-rheological fluid valve. The MR valve can control high-level fluid power without moving parts, due to the apparent viscosity controllability of the MR fluid in magnetic fields. In order to improve the static characteristic of the MR valve, the length of the flux path is decreased by removing the unnecessary bulk of the yoke. Then, in order to improve the dynamic and hysteretic characteristics, the magnetic reluctance of the ferromagnetic material is increased by minimizing the cross sectional area through which the flux passes. Two MR valves, one is a conventional type valve and the other is the proposed one, were fabricated and performance evaluation is experimentally achieved through the comparison study using by-pass damper system.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2005년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.461-468
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• 2005

In this paper, mixed mode magneto-rheological (MR) damper, which is applicable for vibration control of a small scale multi-story structure, is devised. First, the schematic configurations of the shear, flow, and mixed mode MR dampers are described with design constraints and then the analytical models to predict the field-dependent damping forces are derived for each type. Second, an appropriate size of the mixed mode MR damper is manufactured and its field-dependent damping characteristics are evaluated in time domain. Finally, the performance of the manufactured MR damper which is semi-actively applied to a small scale building excited by earthquake load, is numerically evaluated.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제8권10호
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• pp.861-866
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• 2002

A seat suspension system with a controlled MR(Magneto Rheological) fluid damper is introduced to improve the ride quality and prevent the health risk of a driver compared to fixed seats. The system is located between a seat cushion and the base, and is composed of a spring, MR fluid damper and controller. The MR fluid damper designed in valve mode is capable of producing a wide range of damping force according to applied currents. In experiments, a person was sitting on the controlled seat excited by a hydraulic system The skyhook control, continuous skyhook control and relative displacement control were applied and the continuous skyhook control improved the vibration suppression by 36.6%.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.3289-3291
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• 1999

The vibration and impact hinders the movement of micro dynamic system. The controllable micro damper is a solution for this problem. In this paper, the controllable micro damper for MR(Magneto - Rheological) Fluid is designed and fabricated using bulk micromachining process and organic bonding technique. The damping constant of micro MR damper changes according to input magnetic field. The response of the micro MR damper is measured and the experimental results are compared.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2000년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.256-261
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• 2000

Electro-Rheological(ER) fluid is applied to a controllable squeeze film damper(SFD) for stabilizing a flexible rotor system. ER fluid is a class of functional fluid whose yield stress varies according to the applied electric field strength, which is observed as viscosity variation of the fluid. In applying ER fluid to a SFD, a pair of rings of the damper can be used as electrodes. When the electrodes are divided into a horizontal pair and a vertical one, the SFD can produce damping force in each direction independently. A prototype of the directionally controllable SFD was constructed and its performance was experimentally and numerically investigated in the present work.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권5A호
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• pp.467-475
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• 2009

기존의 연구들은 댐퍼만에 의한 부가감쇠비의 Universal Curve만을 제공하였기 때문에 실무에서는 케이블의 구조감쇠 및 공기역학적감쇠와 같은 자체감쇠를 독립적으로 고려하곤 한다. 즉, 케이블에 발생하는 자체감쇠비와 댐퍼에 의해 부여되는 Universal Curve로부터 얻은 부가감쇠비를 산술적으로 합하여 케이블-댐퍼 시스템의 전체감쇠비를 결정해 왔다. 하지만 이러한 선형조합 접근법은 이론적인 근거가 미약하며 관련된 연구도 찾아볼 수 없는 실정이므로 이에 관한 유효성을 검증해 볼 필요가 있다. 이것을 위해 본 연구에서는 자체감쇠를 고려한 전체감쇠비 해석법을 개발하여 정해를 제시하고 이것을 기존의 선형조합 접근법에 의해 얻어진 전체감쇠비와 비교하여 선형조합 접근법의 유효성 여부를 검증하였다. 본 연구의 결과에 의하면, 강성은 작고 최적감쇠계수와 비슷한 감쇠계수를 갖는 댐퍼가 지점에서 가깝게 설치되어 있으며, 케이블의 진동이 저차 모드 위주로 발생하고 케이블의 자체감쇠가 크지 않은 일반적인 풍환경에서는 기존의 연구그룹에서 제시하는 연구결과나 선형조합 접근법을 적용하는 것에 무리가 따르지 않는다. 하지만 외부댐퍼나 예기치 못한 고차 진동모드의 발생, 강성이 큰 댐퍼가 사용되는 경우에는 본 연구를 적용하는 것이 바람직한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 케이블의 자체감쇠를 고려한 전체감쇠비의 정해를 제시하고 이것을 토대로 선형조합 접근법에 대한 적용근거를 제시하였다는 점에서 의미를 찾을 수 있다. 차후 본 연구를 발전시켜 공기역학적감쇠에 대응하는 최적감쇠계수를 실시간으로 제시할 수 있게 된다면 MR(Magneto-rheological) 댐퍼와 같은 준능동 댐퍼의 케이블-댐퍼 시스템 제어의 중요한 알고리즘이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.489-506
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• 2018

This paper reported test of full-scale cables attached with four types of dampers: viscous damper, passive Magneto-Rheological (MR) damper, friction damper and High Damping Rubber (HDR) damper. The logarithmic decrements of the cable with attached dampers were calculated from free vibration time history. The efficiency ratios of the mean damping ratios of the tested four dampers to theoretical maximum damping ratio were derived, which was very important for practical damper design and parameter optimization. Non-ideal factors affecting damper performance were discussed based on the test results. The effects of concentrated mass and negative stiffness were discussed in detail and compared theoretically. Approximate formulations were derived and verified using numerical solutions. The critical values for non-dimensional concentrated mass coefficient and negative stiffness were identified. Efficiency ratios were approximately 0.6, 0.6, and 0.3 for the viscous damper, passive MR damper and HDR damper, respectively. The efficiency ratio for the friction damper was between 0-1.0. The effects of concentrated mass and negative stiffness on cable damping were positive as both could increase damping ratio; the concentrated mass was more effective than negative stiffness for higher vibration modes.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.131-141
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• 2019

Structural control systems have uncertainties in their structural parameters and control devices which by using reliability analysis, uncertainty can be modeled. In this paper, reliability of controlled structures equipped with semi-active Magneto-Rheological (MR) dampers is investigated. For this purpose, at first, the effect of the structural parameters and damper parameters on the reliability of the seismic responses are evaluated. Then, the reliability of MR damper force is considered for expected levels of performance. For sensitivity analysis of the parameters exist in Bouc- Wen model for predicting the damper force, the importance vector is utilized. The improved first-order reliability method (FORM), is used to reliability analysis. As a case study, an 11-story shear building equipped with 3 MR dampers is selected and numerically obtained experimental data of a 1000 kN MR damper is assumed to study the reliability of the MR damper performance for expected levels. The results show that the standard deviation of random variables affects structural reliability as an uncertainty factor. Thus, the effect of uncertainty existed in the structural model parameters on the reliability of the structure is more than the uncertainty in the damper parameters. Also, the reliability analysis of the MR damper performance show that to achieve the highest levels of nominal capacity of the damper, the probability of failure is greatly increased. Furthermore, by using sensitivity analysis, the Bouc-Wen model parameters which have great importance in predicting damper force can be identified.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2002년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.459-466
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• 2002

In this study magneto-rheological damper, a kind of semi-active device, is used to reduce the response of pier and girder of bridge structure subjected to seismic excitation and as a effective semi-active control method fuzzy control technique considering nonlinear behavior of the damper dynamics. By Numerical simulations of a nine span continuous bridge system subjected to various earthquakes, fuzzy control technique is compared with existing clipped optimal control technique in control performance which reduces displacement of pier and girder simultaneously. In the comparison of the control performance within a control force limit, it is confirmed that presented fuzzy control technique more efficiently reduce the pier and girder displacement than clipped optimal control technique based on optimal control theory.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.111.6-111
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• 2001

A seat suspension system with a controlled MR(Magneto Rheological) fluid damper is introduced to improve the ride quality and prevent the health risk of a driver compared to conventional seats. The system locates between a seat cushion and base, and is composed of a spring, MR fluid damper and controller. The MR fluid damper designed in valve mode is capable of producing a wide range of damping force according to applied currents. In experiments, a person was sitting on the controlled seat excited by a hydraulic system. The skyhook control, continuous skyhook control and relative displacement control were applied and the continuous skyhook control improved the vibration suppression by 36.6%.