Abstract
The Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) is the leading research
institute in the field of electro- (ER) and magnetorheological (MR)
fluids in Finland. VTT is an impartial expert organization, which
carries out technical and technoeconomic research services in order to
improve the competitiveness of companies, to diversify the structure of
Finnish industry and to develop the infrastructure of our society. The
research on ER and MR fluids at VTT is strongly concentrated on the
development of technical applications and commercial fluids for Finnish
industry. Different kinds of ER and MR fluids for various uses have been
studied. There are several types of mechanisms proposed for the ER and
MR effect. In this work the authors have found particle polarization and
chaining to be the only model that can be reasonably explained. As a
summary from our testing we have found that both ER and MR fluids have
the potential of playing an important role in mechanical engineering in
the future. Their sophisticated nature and in future the hybrid
characteristics of the materials classified between fluids and solids
will give us great advantages when building new, completely different
kinds of devices. Table 1, Figs 6, Refs 6.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 219-225 |
| Journal | Magnetohydrodynamics |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |