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electrorheological fluid

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electrorheological fluid

Another name for a smart fluid, a liquid suspension that gels when an electric field is applied across it.


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Key statement: An actively controlled material to reversibly change a shear stress or a flexural modulus property which includes magnetorheological fluids, electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological elastomers and electrorheological elastomers.
While several car manufacturers are looking into using electrorheological fluids in automobile shock absorbers, clutches and engine mounts, this technology has not yet proved its value outside the laboratory, Bhadra says.
 
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