Economical and effective damping system is the need of modern competitive industry to improve performance of the products in terms of comfort level, durability, etc. by minimizing vibrations. This motivated researchers to explore the advanced semi-active damping systems. The present work is focused on theoretical and experimental analysis of one of the semi-active systems, Magneto-Rheological (MR) fluid dampers. The study is initiated by a parametric study to understand the influence of various design variables on the performance parameters of a damper. To avoid the problem of local minima,...