Electrorheological fluids applied to an automotive engine mount

On the validity of continuous media theory for plastic materials in magnetorheological fluids under slow compression

“…Later Williams et al (1993) analytically solved the squeeze flow problem for a bi-viscous fluid instead of a Bingham plastic. The final result reads as follows:…”

A new approach of enhancing the shear stress of electrorheological fluids of montmorillonite nanocomposite by emulsion intercalation of poly-N-methaniline

“…Thus, ER fluids behave like Bingham fluids under an applied electric field, whereas they exhibit the characteristics of Newtonian fluids when the electric field is turned off [2]. Because of these characteristics of ER fluids, such as short response time, low power consumption, smoothness of operation, and mechanical simplicity, ER fluids have been considered for various applications in mechanical engineering such as engine mounts, shock absorbers, clutches, ER valves, robotics arms and several control systems [3][4][5]. Recently ER fluids have found some newly developed applications, such as human muscle stimulators, spacecraft deployment dampers, seismic controlling frame structures, ER tactile displays, and photonic crystal [6,7].…”

Complex Fluids in Energy Dissipating Systems

“…However, it has been much less exploited than simple shear flow, despite the fact that it is known that the achieved yield stress can potentially be up to ten times larger [68]. Among the few attempts to characterize the rheology of active fluids in elongational flow, there are some studies under squeeze flow experiments using the parallel-plate geometry in a standard shear rheometer with slow approaching speeds between the parallel-plates [69][70][71][72][73][74][75], and only one attempt under pure elongational flow for MRFs [76]. In order to allow the design of new energy dissipating systems based on active-fluids, it is essential to know the relationship between the flow and the external applied magnetic field.…”