Semi-Active Control of Stay Cable Vibrations Using Magnetorheological Damper

Author(s):  
Rohit Tukaram Gurav ◽  
Shaikh Faruque Ali
2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghong Ning ◽  
Shuaishuai Sun ◽  
Haiping Du ◽  
Weihua Li

In this article, an integrated active and semi-active seat suspension for heavy duty vehicles is proposed, and its prototype is built; an integrated control algorithm applied measurable variables (suspension relative displacement and seat acceleration) is designed for the proposed seat prototype. In this seat prototype, an active actuator with low maximum force output (70 N), which is insufficient for an active seat suspension to control the resonance vibration, is applied together with a rotary magnetorheological damper. The magnetorheological damper can suppress the high vibration energy in resonance frequency, and then a small active force can further improve the seat suspension performance greatly. The suspension’s dynamic property is tested with a MTS system, and its model is identified based on the testing data. A modified on–off controller is applied for the rotary magnetorheological damper. A [Formula: see text] controller with the compensation of a disturbance observer is used for the active actuator. Considering the energy saving, the control strategy is designed as that only when the magnetorheological damper is in the off state (0 A current), the active actuator will have active force output, or the active actuator is off. Both simulation and experiment are implemented to verify the proposed seat suspension and controller. In the sinusoidal excitations experiment, the acceleration transmissibility of integrated control seat has lowest value in resonance frequency and frequencies above the resonance, when compared with power on (0.7 A current), power off (0 A current) and semi-active control seat. In the random vibration experiment, the root mean square acceleration of integrated control seat suspension has 47.7%, 33.1% and 26.5% reductions when compared with above-mentioned three kinds of seat suspension. The power spectral density comparison indicates that the integrated seat suspension will have good performance in practical application. The integrated active and semi-active seat suspension can fill energy consumption gap between active and semi-active control seat suspension.


Author(s):  
Wendong Wang ◽  
Xing Ming ◽  
Yang Chu ◽  
Minghui Liu ◽  
Yikai Shi

To restrain the interference of micro-vibration caused by Control Moment Gyroscope, a new control method based on Magnetorheological damper was proposed in this paper. A mechanical model based on the structure of the presented design was built, and the semi-active control algorithm of damping force was proposed for the designed Magnetorheological damper. The magnetic flux density and other magnetic field parameters were considered and analyzed in Maxwell, and also the related hardware circuit which implements the control algorithm was prepared to test the presented design and algorithm. The results of simulation and experiments show that the presented Magnetorheological damper model and semi-active control algorithm can complete the requirements, and the vibration suppression method is efficient for Control Moment Gyroscope.


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2310-2321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Xu ◽  
Jianyun Chen ◽  
Xiaopeng Liu ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Chenyang Yuan

2010 ◽  
Vol 171-172 ◽  
pp. 654-658
Author(s):  
De Kun Yue ◽  
Qi Wang

Uncertainty for the building structure and nonlinear, this simulation of a multi-storey structure under earthquake is presented based on the BP neural network and system identification, controller will be built to effectively reduce the structural response, and to strengthen the unique damper performance.


2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 1402-1405
Author(s):  
Zhi Hao Wang

Effective vibration control technology for stay cables is extremely critical to safe operations of cable-stayed bridges. For super-long cables, passive linear damper cannot provide sufficient damping since it can be only optimum for a given mode of cable, while a long cable may vibrate with several modes. This paper focuses on multi-mode vibration control of stay cables with passive magnetorheological (MR) dampers. Firstly, a 21.6m-long model cable was designed and established in the laboratory.Then, control performance of the cable with a passive MR damper was tested. The test results show that modal damping ratios of the cable in the first four modes can be improved significantly with the MR damper. It is further demonstrated that optimal tuned passively operated MR damper can outperform the passive viscous damper.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Wang ◽  
Tianyou Tao ◽  
Tong Guo ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Aiqun Li

The structural health monitoring system (SHMS) provides an effective tool to conduct full-scale measurements on existing bridges for essential research on bridge wind engineering. In July 2008, Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed China and hit Sutong cable-stayed bridge (SCB) in China. During typhoon period, full-scale measurements were conducted to record the wind data and the structural vibration responses were collected by the SHMS installed on SCB. Based on the statistical method and the spectral analysis technique, the measured data are analyzed to obtain the typical parameters and characteristics. Furthermore, this paper analyzed the measured structural vibration responses and indicated the vibration characteristics of the stay cable and the deck, the relationship between structural vibrations and wind speed, the comparison of upstream and downstream cable vibrations, the effectiveness of cable dampers, and so forth. Considering the significance of damping ratio in vibration mitigation, the modal damping ratios of the SCB are identified based on the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) combined with the random decrement technique (RDT). The analysis results can be used to validate the current dynamic characteristic analysis methods, buffeting calculation methods, and wind tunnel test results of the long-span cable-stayed bridges.


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