Design and Experiment of the Magnetorheological Damper with Multiple Poles

Abstract:

The main function of a suspension system is to isolate and absorb the impact from road surface to vehicle body. To provide good riding comfort, a damper with variable and wide-range damping is highly needed. This paper presents a complete procedure from design, optimization to experiment for a magnetorheological (MR) damper with multiple poles. This new designed damper is entirely different from those conventional single-pole MR dampers, effectively by extending the range of damping force. Magnetic simulation has been done in the paper to provide an optimal structure of the damper which significantly enhances the damping force while avoids magnetic saturation. The new damper was also manufactured and tested. The experimental results show that the provided damping force can be significantly increased with the increase of input current from low to high speeds. Damping force can be varied by 7.41 times. It proves that this new MR damper with high damping force can be controlled adaptively at wide range of operation conditions. It is suitable to be an adaptively variable damping source in semi-active suspension systems.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 764-765)
• Pages: 223-227
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.764-765.223
• Online since: May 2015
• Authors: Yao Jung Shiao*, Mei Ling Jow, Wen Hwa Kuo, Quang Anh Nguyen, Chao Wei Lai
• Keywords: Damping Device, MR Damper, MR Fluid

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