AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH OF ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUID DAMPERS DESIGN

Abstract

As far as nowadays the technology continues to advance, the need for vibration isolation becomes increasingly necessary. Electro-Rheological Fluid (ERF) dampers have been proposed for vibration control. This work presents an experimental study of Electro-Rheological (ER) dampers that could be used mainly in vehicle suspension systems. So far, an experimental setup of a double cylinder stroked by a single cross head is established, in order to investigate the vibration performance of an electrorheological fluid damper, under different electric fields. The electrorheological fluid used for the experiments is a mixture of SAE 10 oil and zeolite particles. The major findings are the hysteresis loops and the damping force that measured and presented for the various electric fields. It is clearly obtained that, as the electric field increases the capacity of the damping increases. Machine learning in terms of regression have been then applied for damping forces versus electric field yield further predictions