Rapid Development of MR Damper Technology

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Rapid Development of MR Damper Technology

• Prof. B.F. Spencer's (University of Illinois,
  Urbana/Champaign) efforts under the auspices of
  the US-Japan Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation
  Research Initiative in the development of
  magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers for
  protection of civil engineering structures have
  led to commercial availability of large-scale MR
  dampers for civil engineering applications (e.g.,
  the Lord Corporation in the USA and Sanwa-Tekki
  Corporation in Japan), and the world's first
  full-scale implementations of these smart dampers
  in civil engineering structures such as the
  Nihon-Kagaku-Miraikan Building, an exhibition
  hall in the Tokyo Bay area designed by Nikken
  Sekkei Corp. for futuristic science and
  technology. Funded through "Bilateral Exchange
  Programs for Young Researchers - Natural Hazard
  Mitigation in Japan" NSF grants CMS-9900234 and
  INT-0101111.