An electrorheological fluid damper for vibration control

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 2476-2481

  Li, Jianjun ^a   Gruver, William A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blades; Damping; Erbium; Mathematical model; Orifices; Plastics; Shock absorbers; Stress; Torque; Vibration control

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ERBIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOFLUIDICS; ORIFICES; PLASTICS; RHEOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SHOCK ABSORBERS; STRESSES; TORQUE; VIBRATION CONTROL; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NEWTONIAN FLOW;

BLADES; DAMPING TORQUES; MODEL PARAMETERS; ORIFICE RESTRICTION; OUTPUT TORQUE; PERFORMANCE TESTS; SEMI-ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL; VARIABLE DAMPING;

ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS;

EID: 0031637172     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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