Design, fabrication, testing, and fuzzy modeling of a large magnetorheological damper for vibration control in a railcar

Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME Joint Railroad Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 223-229

  Atray, Vipul S ^a   Roschke, Paul N ^b  

^a Ocean Design Associates Inc   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FUZZY SETS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PISTONS; RHEOLOGY; VIBRATION CONTROL; DESIGN; FABRICATION; RAIL MOTOR CARS; SOLENOIDS;

ADAPTIVE NEURO FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPER; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; DAMPING CHARACTERISTICS; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DESIGN PARAMETERS; MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL DAMPERS; RANDOM DISPLACEMENT; SEMI-ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL DEVICES; VERTICAL VIBRATIONS;

RAILROAD CARS; DAMPING;

EID: 0038603862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/rtd2003-1662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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