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Engine mount system affects the automobile NVH performance. Active mounts would achieve excellent vibration isolation and relative displacement control performance in a broad frequency bandwidth by outputting controlled force to the mounting system. The actuator and control method of the active mounts determine the system performance. In this paper, an active mount based on the smart material, i.e., Terfenol-D rod, is proposed, which mainly includes three parts: rubber spring, magnetostrictive actuator (MA), and hydraulic amplification mechanism (HAM). Dynamic model of the active mount is correspondingly established. A state feedback control method based on x-LMS (Least-Mean-Square) algorithm is proposed as well. Specifically, with the consideration of the unmeasurable state parameters in the active mounting system, an x-LMS state feedback controller with the system state as the reference signal is constructed by employing Sage-Husa Kalman filter to realize the state estimation of the active mounting system. Then a detailed analysis of the proposed control method is conducted, with deriving iterative formula of tap-weight vector. Sequentially, the problem of the dependence on the excitation signal in the x-LMS algorithm is addressed. The feasibility and capability of the proposed control method are verified and evaluated by simulation of a two-degree-of-freedom active mounting system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Terfenol is an ideal choice for medium to high power low frequency sonar. It can offer the transducer designer higher strain, higher power density, but the designer must be aware of the eddy current. To enhance efficiency of the barrel-stave transducer powered by a Terfenol rod, radial slots rather than laminations were used to control eddy currents in the Terfenol drive rod, and the effectiveness and the number of these slots were studied experimentally and calculated by finite element modeling. Based on the characteristic of vortex path,a new simple geometrical method to calculate the number of the radial slots of a Terfenol rod at the operating frequency is put forward in this paper. Moreover, the calculated results are in good agreement with those of using the finite element method (FEM) for the slotted Terfenol rod given by the literature. The method will save much cost to design Terfenol rod transducers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]