Design and testing of a magnetorheological damper to control both vibration and shock loads for a vehicle crew seat

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7643, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Becnel, Andrew ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Hiemenz, Gregory J ^b   Wereley, Norman M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TECHNO SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN PROCEDURE; DROP TEST; EXPEDITIONARY FIGHTING VEHICLES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HYDROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; HYDROMECHANICAL MODEL; IMPACT LOADINGS; LINEAR MODEL; LOADING CONDITION; LOW SPEED; MAGNETIC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS; MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL; MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL DAMPERS; MR DEVICES; NORMAL VIBRATION MODES; PAYLOAD MASS; SEATING POSITION; SEMI-ACTIVE; SERVOHYDRAULIC TESTING MACHINE; SHOCK AND VIBRATION; SHOCK LOAD; SINGLE FREQUENCY; STEADY-STATE FLUID FLOW; TEST DATA; TIME RESPONSE;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CONCRETE BRIDGES; DAMPING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; LOADING; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; SHOCK TESTING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77953492084     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.848724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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