• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.47-54
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• 2013

The main cause of die failure in hot forging is wear. Die wear directly generates the gradual loss of part tolerances, thereby causing deterioration in the dimensional accuracy of a forged part. It is very important to estimate forging cycles, called as die life, at which the die should be repaired or replaced. In this study, in order to estimate the hot forging die life, the finite element simulation of wear on an asymmetric part like a ball joint socket used in vehicle was carried out based on Archard's model. Finite element simulation results were compared with wear amounts of a used die that were measured using a contact stylus profilometer. The simulation results were in relatively good agreement with measurements obtained from the virtual die which was used by 7,000 forging cycles in a forging industry. Consequently, the die life in the hot forging of the ball joint socket was estimated by 10,500 forging cycles on the finisher die.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1996.03b
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• pp.93-100
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• 1996

In this paper, a computer simulationtechnique for the forging process having a spring-attached die was presented . The penalty rigid-thermoviscoplastic finite element method was empolyed together with an interatively force-balancing method, in which the convergence was achieved when the forming load and the spring reaction force are in equilibrium within the user-specified allowable accuracy. The force balance was controled by adjusting the velocity of the spring-attched die. th minimize the number of internations, a velocity estimating schemewas proposed. Two application examples found in the related company were given. In the first application example, the predicted metal folw lines were compared with the acturally forged ones. in the second example, a hot forging process with a spring-attached die was simulated and the analyzed results were discussed in order to investigated the effects of spring-attached dies on the metal flow lines and the forming loads.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1990-1995
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• 2012

This paper presents design methodology to determine the design parameters that affect the manufacture of aluminum forging piston using the FE simulation and the Taguchi method. Maximum forging load is used as the objective function, and preform, material temperature and draft angle are selected as the design parameters. Their combinations are implemented by orthogonal array, and forging load is evaluated through the simulation. From the analytic results of design parameters to minimize the load using signal to noise ratio, their optimal combinations are proposed. The proposed design methodology will be able to help in selecting proper preform among preforms and to be used in determining the optimal combination of the parameters in metal forming process.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.448_449
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• 2009

배전계통의 전압관리는 전력의 조류가 단방향으로 흐르나 이에 분산전원이 도입되면 전력조류가 양방향으로 흐르게 된다. 즉 역조류를 발생하는 분산전원이 연계되는 경우, 유효전력의 방향과 무효전력을 적정하게 반영해서 전압강하뿐만 아니라 전압상승의 문제도 일어난다. 또 기존의 배전계통에서는 부하의 변동에 의한 배전선의 전류변화시 전압의 변동이 변전소 인출부부터 배전선말단까지 단조감소되나 분산전원의 도입시 연계지점의 전압이 높아져 배전선로 상의 전압분포는 단조 감소의 형태만으로 되지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 PSCAD/EMTDC의 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 배전계통의 말단에 분산전원의 형태인 동기발전기와 유도발전기를 각각 연계하였을 때 나타나는 전압분포에 대해 알아보고, 전기사업법에서 정한 정적범위가 유지되는지의 유무를 평가하였다. 본 논문의 결과는 분산전원 시스템의 계통 연계 표준 가이드라인에 유용한 자료라 되리라 믿는다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.69-75
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• 2010

A hollow flanged spindle is generally used for the assembly of the driving shaft in some vehicles. This part has conventionally been manufactured by both hot forging and machining process, in which case a circular billet is hot-forged into a flanged spindle blank and then its central part is machined for hollow. Therefore, the development of a new forming technology without further machining processes has strongly been in demand. In this study, a new compound forging process of the hollow flanged spindle was proposed through the finite element simulation. By the proposed compound forging process, both extruding of the spindle body part and piercing for the hollow inside it can be performed at the same time. Metal flow patterns, forging defects and forging forces were investigated through the finite element simulation results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1999.03b
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• pp.103-107
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• 1999

In this paper, a computer simulation technique for the forging process having a floating die is presented. The penalty rigid-plastic finite element method is employed together with an iteratively force-balancing method, in which the convergence is achieved when the floating die part is in force equilibrium within the user-specified tolerance. The force balance is controled by adjusting the velocity of the floating die in an automatic manner. An application example of a three-stage cold forging process is given.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.51-57
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• 1998

In this paper, a computer aided process design technique, utilizing a forging simulator and a commercial CAD software, is presented together with its related design system for cold-former forging of ball joints. The forging sequence design is carried out through user-computer interaction by using design templates, design database, experience or knowledge-based rules and some basic laws found in the literature. The forging simulation technique is used to verify the process design. The detail designs including die set drawings and die manufacturing information are automatically generated. It has been shown that the engineer ing and design productivity is much improved by the presented approach in the practical standpoint of process design engineers.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.665-679
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• 2017

When measuring productive efficiency, often it is necessary to have knowledge of the production frontier function that shows the maximum possible output of production units as a function of inputs. Canonical parametric forms of the frontier function were initially considered under the framework of stochastic frontier model; however, several additional nonparametric methods have been developed over the last decade. Efforts have been recently made to impose shape constraints such as monotonicity and concavity on the non-parametric estimation of the frontier function; however, most existing methods along that direction suffer from unnecessary non-smooth points of the frontier function. In this paper, we propose methods to estimate the smooth frontier function with monotonicity for stochastic frontier models and investigate the effect of imposing a monotonicity constraint into the estimation of the frontier function and the finite dimensional parameters of the model. Simulation studies suggest that imposing the constraint provide better performance to estimate the frontier function, especially when the sample size is small or moderate. However, no apparent gain was observed concerning the estimation of the parameters of the error distribution regardless of sample size.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.179-185
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• 2010

In a sensitivity analysis, an uncertainty importance measure is often used to assess how much uncertainty of an output is attributable to the uncertainty of an input, and thus, to identify those inputs whose uncertainties need to be reduced to effectively reduce the uncertainty of output. A function is called monotonic if the output is either increasing or decreasing with respect to any of the inputs. In this paper, for a monotonic function, we propose a method for evaluating the measure which assesses the expected percentage reduction in the variance of output due to ascertaining the value of input. The proposed method can be applied to the case that the output is expressed as linear and nonlinear monotonic functions of inputs, and that the input follows symmetric and asymmetric distributions. In addition, the proposed method provides a stable uncertainty importance of each input by discretizing the distribution of input to the discrete distribution. However, the proposed method is computationally demanding since it is based on Monte Carlo simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.297-300
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• 2008

In this paper, a simple and computationally efficient approach to non-isothermal three-dimensional analysis of hot forging processes is presented based on rigid-thermoviscoplastic finite element method. In the approach, the temperatures of dies are considered to be constant. Two hot forging processes of large crank shafts ranging from 800 to 1000 kg are simulated using the simple approach.