RT Journal Article
T1 Design and testing of a steering damper for motorcycles based on a shear-thickening fluid.
A1 Urda Gómez, Pedro
A1 Pérez-Fernández, Javier
A1 Carabias-Acosta, Enrique
A1 Cabrera-Carrillo, Juan Antonio
A1 Castillo-Aguilar, Juan Jesús
K1 Fluidos no-newtonianos
K1 Amortiguamiento (Mecánica)
K1 Vehículos de motor - Discpositivos de seguridad
AB This work is intended to show the feasibility of the utilisation of a shear-thickening fluid as working fluid in a steering damper for motorcycles. To that end, a prototype of a steering damper has been designed and then tested under different working conditions. Unlike conventional models, this new steering damper bases its performance on the combination of very simple rod geometries and a shear-thickening fluid of different concentrations. The experiments carried out with a test machine demonstrate that, despite its simplicity and reduced cost of manufacturing, the prototype shows similar behaviour to a conventional high-performance racing steering damper. The Bouc–Wen model has been used to reproduce the behaviour of the shear-thickening fluid-based damper prototype. The parameters of the model have been obtained following an optimization process to fit the model’s response to the experimental data when exciting the damper at different speeds. Results show that the damper’s behaviour can be properly modelled with a single combination of parameters.
PB IOP
YR 2022
FD 2022-08-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29620
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29620
LA eng
NO Pedro Urda et al 2022 Smart Mater. Struct. 31 095031
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/11350
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026