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Studies on the damping

property of mechatronic shock
absorber with low speed and
heavy load capacity

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CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION
• STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATION
• OPERATION PRINCIPLE
• SIMULATION MODEL
• SOBOL METHOD
• RESULTS OF SOBOL METHOD APPLIED TO OUR MODEL
• EXPERIMENTAL TEST
• EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
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INTRODUCTION

• A single-DOF spring/mass/dashpot
system that is attached to a
vibration body
• The stiffness and mass of the
absorber are designed in order to
produce an "anti-resonance" in the
total system response
• The absorber is "tuned" to match
its natural frequency with the
natural frequency of the original
system.

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NEED FOR MECHATRONIC SHOCK
ABSORBER
• Conventional dampers provide stability by dissipating
vibration energy into heat.
• This method of reducing the vibrational disturbance wastes
a s i g n i f i c a n t a m o u n t o f e n e r g y.
• It has the shortage of leakage and high-speed failure.
• I n M e c h a t r o n i c s h o c k a b s o r b e r, v i b r a t i o n e n e r g y c a n b e
h a r v e s t e d w i t h h i g h e f f i c i e n c y.
• Mechatronic shock absorber mainly attenuates the vibration
through the electromagnetic damping force.
• Mechatronic shock absorbers effectively attenuate vibration
and improve vehicle ride comfort
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Source: Guan et al. (2022)
STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATION
1-base, 2-ball nut, 3-lead screw, 4-
coupling 1, 5-input shaft of bevel
gear pair, 6-bevel gear, 7-bevel
gear pair support, 8-bevel gear 2, 9-
output shaft of bevel gear pair, 10-
coupling 2, 11-input shaft of motor
reducer, 12-motor, 13-motor reducer
gear 1, 14-motor reducer gear 2, 15-
motor reducer gear 3, 16-motor
reducer gear 4, 17-motor reducer
gear 5, 18-motor reducer gear 6,
19-motor reducer gear 7, 20-motor
reducer gear 8, 21-guide rail, 22-
slider.
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OPERATION PRINCIPLE
• The suspension vibrates up and
down due to the bumpiness of the
vehicle body
• Ball screw pair converts the
vertical movement of the nut into
the rotation of the screw shaft
• Output shaft of the bevel gear pair
is connected with the input shaft of
generator through coupling
• EM induction generator generates
electricity and stores it into the
vehicle’s rechargeable battery.
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Indicator diagram of energy harvesting shock Indicator curve under different External loads
absorber
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Indicator curve under different Excitation Indicator curve under different Excitation
amplitudes frequencies
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Variation curve of equivalent damping coefficient with external load

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• Sobol method is a global sensitivity analysis approach based on variance.
• Can quantitatively calculate the sensitivity of corresponding parameters by
random sampling method.
• Calculate the sensitivity index of each parameter: the system is Y=f(X) , where
X=(X1, X2 …, X14).
• Sampling 2N times within the range of these 14 parameters to form a (2N, 14)
matrix
• Define matrix A as the first N rows of the matrix, matrix B as the last N rows
• AB(i) (i =1~14) as the i column of matrix A, and replace it with the i column of
matrix B
• BA(i) (i =1~14) is the i column of matrix B, which is replaced by the i column of
matrix A
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Calculate the system output
Click to edit Master title stylevalues f(A), f(B), f(AB ) and f(BA ) corresponding
to samples A, B, AB(i) and BA(i) and the expected value of the system output
value corresponding to sample A.
• First, calculate the expected value of the system output value corresponding to
sample A:

• Variance of output corresponding to sample A:

• The effect of Xi on the variance of system output:

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• Except Xi, the influence of all other variables on the variance of system output:

• Finally, the main effect and total effect of the i-th variable:

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Effect of parameters on Average damping force Effect of parameters on Equivalent damping

coefficient
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Effect of parameters on Work done in a single cycle 1414

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Test Bench Crank connecting rod mechanism

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Shock absorber prototype Upper computer

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• Experimental tests are conducted to validate analysis results

• The excitation mode is sinusoidally, with maximum dynamic force 50000 N

• Excitation amplitude is 10mm and 15mm, the excitation frequency is 0.25Hz,

0.5Hz, 0.75Hz, 1Hz and 2Hz

• Load resistance is 1 Ω, 2 Ω, 3 Ω, 5 Ω, 10 Ω and 25 Ω, respectively

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Test and theory of indicator curve under 10mm

Test and theory of indicator curve under 10mm
and 1Hz and 1 Ω
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Test and theory of indicator curve under 10mm and Test and theory of indicator curve under 15mm
1Hz and 1 Ω
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Test and theory of indicator curve under 0.25hz

and 1 Ω Test and theory of indicator curve under
0.25hz and 5 Ω
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(Excitation amplitude 10mm)

Test and theory of Work done Test and theory of Equivalent damping
coefficient
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(Excitation amplitude 15mm)

Test and theory of Work done Test and theory of Equivalent damping
coefficient
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CONCLUSION
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• Proposed the structural principle and working process of the mechatronic shock
absorber with low speed and heavy load capacity.
• Theoretical model on damping force is established, electromagnetic damping,
mechanical damping and inertia effects are considered simultaneously.
• Results indicate that the inertia force doesn’t affect the enclosed area force-
displacement curve, but it does impact the configuration distribution.
• Sobol method, is employed to further investigate the effects of different operations
and structural parameters on the performance of shock absorber.
• Results indicate that for the equivalent damping coefficient, the excitation
frequency and amplitude and the quality of each part have little influence on it.
• The most important operational conditions are the external load while the most
important structural effects are the transmission ratio
• This work provides a theoretical basis for guiding the future design of the
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REFERENCES

• Guan, D., Cong, X., Li, J., Wang, P., Yang, Z. and Jing, X. (2022) Theoretical
modeling and optimal matching on the damping property of mechatronic shock
absorber with low speed and heavy load capacity, Journal of Sound and
Vibration, 535, pp. 1-16

• Wei, S., Li, Y., Gao, X., Lee, K. and Sun, L. (2020) Multi-stage Sensitivity
Analysis of Distributed Energy Systems: A Variance-based Sobol Method,
Journal of modern power systems and clean energy, 8, pp. 899-900

• Zhu, H., Li, Y., Shen, W. and Zhu, S. (2019) Mechanical and energy-harvesting
model for electromagnetic inertial mass dampers, Mechanical Systems and
Signal Processing, 120, pp. 204-210
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Thank You

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