• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 1997

Using high tensile steel plate makes the vehicle body stiffness lower even though it can lessen the fuel consume rate in application of weight reduction. The crack which happens arround vehicle window glass is brought about due to fatigue with low torsional stiffness. The paper presents a most suitable way to increase torsional stiffness using elasticity theory. Also the result of this study shows good agreement with FEM and experiments. We used a passenger car for calculation in this paper. Because we can apply the result of this study to fire engine as well as passenger car.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.7 s.94
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• pp.1719-1730
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• 1993

This paper presents the theoretical natural frequencies of out-of-plane deformable ring based on the variables such as out-of-plane deflection, torsional rotation and shear rotation. Based on the same variables, a finite element eigen analysis is carried out by using the $C^0$-continuous, isoparametric element which has three nodes per element and three degrees-of-freedom at each node. Numerical experiments are peformed to find the integration scheme which produces accurate natural frequencies, natural modes and correct rigid body motion. The uniformly reduced integration and the selective reduced integration give more accurate numerical frequencies than the uniformly full integration, but the uniformly reduced integration produces incorrect rigid body motion while selective reduced integration does correct one. Therefore, the ring element based on the three variables which employes selective reduced integration is recommended to avoid spurious modes, to alleviate the error due to shear locking and to produce correct rigid body motion, simultaneously.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.385-396
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• 1989

In this paper, using by the orthogonalities of modes for trainwheel (as Mindlin's annular plate and rail (as Timoshenko beam), the frequency equation of the coupled system are induced. It is convinced that the natural frequencies of coupled system are distributed to be about quadratic order function examined through the experimental and numerical analysis. The natural frequencies of the system coupled by both creep force and creep moment are composed of the natural frequencies of the system coupled by creep force and the natural frequencies of the system coupled by creep moment . And it is shown that the coupled natural frequencies up to 3rd do not make much difference from the values of the system coupled by individual creep force of creep moment. But the coupled natural frequencies higher than the 3rd are quite different from those of individual case.