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A company has purchased a Flashmix FMX25 for dispersing metal powder into hydrocarbon oil to produce a smart material used as a shock absorber in semi-automotive vehicle suspensions and prosthetic limbs.
Magneto-Rheological Fluid (MRF) is composed of oils filled with metal particles (normally Iron) and other functional additives such as surfactants that surround the metal particles to protect them and help keep them suspended within the fluid. These fluids are controlled by an external magnetic field generated from an induced current.
The metal particles make up approximately 20 - 40% of the volume of the fluids. The particles are between 3 - 10 microns but have a powerful effect on the fluid's consistency; when exposed to a magnetic field the particles line up, thickening the fluid dramatically. This thickening process takes less than 1 second (twenty-thousandths of a second).
Published by Silverson Machines on Oct 11, 2022
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