Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Applications

The accustomed appliance of ER fluids is in fast acting hydraulic valves 3 and clutches, with the break amid plates getting in the adjustment of 1 mm and the activated abeyant getting in the adjustment of 1 kV. In simple terms, if the electric acreage is applied, an ER hydraulic valve is shut or the plates of an ER clamp are bound together, if the electric acreage is removed the ER hydraulic valve is accessible or the clamp plates are disengaged. Other accepted applications are in ER brakes 4 (think of a anchor as a clamp with one ancillary fixed) and shock absorbers 5 (which can be anticipation of as bankrupt hydraulic systems area the shock is acclimated to try to pump aqueous through a valve).

There are abounding atypical uses for these fluids, including use in the US army's planned approaching force warrior project. They plan to actualize bulletproof vests appliance an ER aqueous because the adeptness to absorb the aqueous into bolt creates the abeyant for a actual ablaze belong that can change from a accustomed bolt into a harder accoutrement about instantaneously. Other abeyant uses are in authentic annoying cutting and as haptic controllers and concrete displays.6

ER aqueous has aswell been proposed to accept abeyant applications in adjustable electronics, with the aqueous congenital in elements such as rollable screens and keypads, in which the viscosity-changing qualities of the aqueous acceptance the rollable elements to become adamant for use, and adjustable to cycle and abjure for autumn if not in use. Motorola filed a apparent appliance for adaptable accessory applications in 2006.7

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