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Vibration Controllability of Sandwich Structures with Smart Materials of Electrorheological Fluids and Magnetorheological Materials: A Review

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Background

Vibration control is very significant issue in various engineering fields such as flexible structures, rotor systems, cable and bridge, and vehicle suspension. So far, three different recipes to suppress or control unwanted vibrations are used: passive, semi-active and active. As well known, the passive method has several limitations, such as the lack of real-time avoidance of the time-varying resonances. On the one hand, active vibration control method is very effective, but it is not attractive in terms of cost due to the use of several actuators and sensors. Therefore, recently semi-active vibration control method is popularly used in many practical environments.

Purpose

This article reviews vibration control of flexible structures using the semi-active method associated with smart materials of electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids and magnetorheological elastomers. Modal characteristics of beam, shell and plate incorporating the core (or layer) of smart materials are deeply investigated and discussed in terms of field-dependent controllability.

Methods

The field-dependent natural frequency and damping property of the sandwich beam type, plate type and shell type are experimentally identified. Subsequently, an appropriate control scheme based on the field-dependent modal properties is formulated to avoid the resonance behavior. In addition, several sandwich beams which are partially filled and fully filled with the magnetorheological fluid are investigated to understand the effectiveness of the modal property change.

Results

It has shown that both damping and stiffness properties of the sandwich structures can be effectively controlled by several ways: the change of the field intensity, the location of cores zones, the partial and full treatment and boundary conditions of the structures. In addition, it has identified that mode shapes of the sandwich plates featuring electrorheological core can be partially and fully controlled by applying the input field to an appropriate zone.

Conclusion

Smart flexible structures associated with the field-responsive materials can be effectively used for vibration control due to its controllability of the stiffness and damping as well. However, to successfully implement in real environment, a more sophisticated analytical model considering the microscopic aspects of the particle motions needs to developed. Moreover, the field-dependent bucking problem and acoustic characteristics of smart structures subjected to external disturbances need to be explored.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Jain University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Shreedhar Kolekar

  2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Satara College of Engineering and Management, Limb, Satara, Maharashtra, 415015, India

    Shreedhar Kolekar

  3. Centre for Incubation, Innovation, Research and Consultancy, Jyothy Institute of Technology, Tataguni Off Kanakapura Road, Bangalore, 560082, Karnataka, India

    Krishna Venkatesh

  4. Division of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan-si, Chungnam, 31080, South Korea

    Jong-Seok Oh

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, 253, Yonghyun-dong, Namgu, Incheon, South Korea

    Seung-Bok Choi

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Kolekar, S., Venkatesh, K., Oh, JS. et al. Vibration Controllability of Sandwich Structures with Smart Materials of Electrorheological Fluids and Magnetorheological Materials: A Review. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. 7, 359–377 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-019-00120-5

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