Experimental Analysis of Magneto-Rheological Elastomer (original) (raw)

Recently, a very attractive and effective semiactive absorbers featuring magneto-rheological (MR) materials such as MR fluids (MRFs) or MR elastomers (MRE’s) have been proposed by many investigators. These absorbing devices based on MR technique have a number of attractive characteristics for use in vibration control, such as fast response characteristic to magnetic field, wide control bandwidth and compact size. MR materials include MRFs, MR foams and MREs, whose rheological properties can be controlled by the application of an external magnetic field. The most common MR material is MRFs, which is magnetically polarizable particles suspended in viscous fluids. Since their invention in 1948, MRF technique has made significant advancements. The MRFs have been proved to be commercially viable and well suited for many applications, such as the automotive suspension vibration control, the earthquake resistance, clutch. Solid analogs of MRFs and MREs can avoid those disadvantages such as...