Investigation of the response time of magnetorheological fluid dampers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5386, Issue , 2004, Pages 63-71

  Koo, Jeong Hoi ^a   Goncalves, Fernando D ^a   Ahmadian, Mehdi ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetorheological; MR damper; Response time

Indexed keywords

BASE ISOLATION SYSTEMS; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL; MR DAMPER; RESPONSE TIME;

ACTUATORS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; PISTONS; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DAMPING;

EID: 8844237003     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.539643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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