WAVELET-BASED PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION OF A NONLINEAR MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPER

In recent years, significant advances in vibration control of structures have been achieved due greatly to the emergent technologies based on smart materials, such as mangnetorheological (MR) fluids. This paper develops a computational algorithm for the modeling and identification of the MR dampers by using wavelet systems to handle the nonlinear terms. By taking into account the Haar wavelets, the properties of integral operational matrix and of product operational matrix are introduced and utilized to find an algebraic representation form instead of the differential equations of the dynamical system. It is shown that MR damper parameters can be estimated easily by considering only the algebraic equations obtained.