Semi-Active Vibration Control: Strategies and Applications
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicle Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 1446
Special Issue Editors
Interests: characterization and modeling of magnetorheological (MR) fluids and elastomers; hysteresis; active vibration control and testing
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Interests: intelligent autonomous decision-making and dynamic control of vehicles
Interests: hydro-pneumatic suspension
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Semi-active control offers great potential for the control of vibration in machines and structures by combining the modulation of passively generated elastic and energy dissipative forces with minimal control efforts. This represents a compromise between high-performance active systems in many complex hardware and control methods and highly reliable and low-cost passive systems.
The objective of this Special Issue is to compile recent research and development efforts in this field, including control strategies, laboratory and field characterization and assessments, modulating hardware, smart materials such as electro- and magneto-rheological fluids and elastomers, and innovative applications. This Special Issue will follow an overarching theme integrating fundamental research efforts on semi-active vibration control in applications in machines and structures.
The specific topics of interest within the scope of this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- The characterization and assessment of semi-active control devices;
- MR fluids and MR elastomers;
- Semi-active dynamic vibration absorbers;
- The semi-active control of noise;
- The semi-active control of whole-body and hand-transmitted vibration and shock;
- Semi-active control for the enhancement of comfort and perception issues related to workplace vibration;
- On-off and continuous control strategies, such as sliding mode, fuzzy PID and others;
- Semi-active vehicle suspensions;
- Flexible structures;
- An assessment of semi-active vibration and shock control in automotive and railways;
- Semi-active secondary vehicle suspensions such as seats and cabin suspension;
- Semi-active non-pneumatic automotive wheels;
- Semi-active asymmetric damping vehicle suspensions;
- Piezo and hydro-pneumatic actuators;
- The semi-active control of joints and friction in machines, vehicles and structures;
- Energy dissipation analyses;
- Modeling analyses of switching and hysteresis nonlinearities.
Prospective authors are invited to submit their original work within the scope of this Special Issue—following the journal’s guidelines (Machines | Instructions for Authors (mdpi.com)) for preparing manuscripts—electronically to either of the Guest Editors listed below or the journal’s website using the web-based submission tools. Each manuscript will be reviewed in accordance with the journal’s requirements. Prospective authors are also encouraged to submit their aims with a title and brief summary of their paper, thus facilitating the review process for the Editors.
Prof. Dr. Subhash Rakheja
Dr. Zhijun Fu
Dr. Yuming Yin
Dr. Yumeng Yao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- semi-active control
- dynamics of vehicles
- fuzzy control
- PID control
- vibration control strategies
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