Magneto-Rheological Fluids

Dear Colleagues,

Magneto-rheological fluids offer unique opportunities for realizing adaptive structural systems capable of modulating their response by properly modifying their stiffness and their damping. Since the related transformations occur at a rate well beyond the classical kHz magnitude, a sort of standard reference for structural systems bandwidth, they can suit the realization of adaptive control systems well for optimizing, for instance, impact energy diffusion, as for shock absorbers, landing gears, adaptive bumpers, and so on, or dynamic response by stiffness adjustment, useful for noise control, maneuver optimization, direction control, and so on. For their nature, the range of applicability spreads all over transport vehicles, interesting automotive, including motorcycles, aeronautic, naval, heavy transport, and even in the biomedical field, with more and more efficient prosthetic applications. The evolution of MRF devices may be easily tracked on scientific literature ranging all along the last thirty years and more. The ambition of this Special Issue is instead to concentrate on the applications of this technology, pointing at its potentiality, and its limitations, trying to provide a reliable picture of the state of the art in terms of reliability and marketability of MRF-based devices. This Special Issue shall then be focused on these aspects, transversal to the different segment of sea, ground, air transportation, and medical:

• Bumpers
• Shock absorbers
• Landing gears
• Adaptive stiffness devices
• Vibration absorbers
• Seismic alleviation
• Control systems
• MRF system integration
• Prosthetics
• TRL

Dr. Antonio Concilio
Dr. Salvatore Ameduri
Dr. Ignazio Dimino
Dr. Vikram G Kamble
Dr. Rosario Pecora
Guest Editors

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