A New Model for Characterizing Nonlinear Hysteresis of Magnetorheological Fluid Damper

Magnetorheological (MR) dampers whose nonlinear hysteresis is a rather complicated phenomenon have been widespread in mechanical systems, automobile shock absorbers, the civil engineering, etc. The understanding of such a behaviour is helpful to control effectively and utilize maximum advantages of MR dampers. It is vitally important to construct parametric models used to develop control algorithms. Hence, the current study aims at developing a parametric model which exhibits considerably better predictions than that of more complicated models. In addition to achieving such a target, a simple algebraic model including only an exponential function, a hyperbolic tangent function, and other algebraic expressions can be able to capture the non-linear hysteresis adequately. Compared to an existing algebraic model and the experimental dataset, the proposed model is a reliable one.