"Investigation of a seat suspension installed with compact variable sti" by Lei Deng, Shuaishuai Sun et al.
Long-term vibration poses a threat to drivers’ health and affects their ride performance. Furthermore, large-magnitude vibration and sudden shocks may even result in end-stop impacts, raising the drivers’ injury risk. To reduce the vibration and avoid end-top impacts, this paper presents an innovative seat suspension installed with variable stiffness and variable damping (VSVD) rotary magnetorheological (MR) dampers. At first, a novel compact VSVD rotary MR damper was designed and prototyped for the suspension, making the suspension's stiffness and damping controllable. Then, with two...
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