• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.605-611
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• 2011

Shimmy is a self-excited vibration in lateral and torsional directions of a landing gear during either the take-off or landing. It is caused by a couple of conditions such as a low torsional stiffness of the strut, a free-play in the landing gear, a wheel imbalance, or worn parts, and it may make the aircraft unstable. This study was performed for an analysis of the shimmy stability on a small aircraft. A nose landing gear was modeled as a linear system and characterized by state-equations which were used to analyze the stability both in the frequency and time-domain for predicting whether the shimmy occurs and investigating a good design range of the important parameters. The root-locus method and the 4th Runge-Kutta method were used for each analysis. Because the present system has a simple mechanism using a friction to reinforce the stability, the friction, a non-linear factor, was linearized by a describing function and considered in the analysis and observed the result of the instability reduction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.439-443
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• 2001

The steering wheel vibrations such as shimmy, brake judder and shake are affected by the vibration characters of steering and suspension. For the analysis of shimmy, nonuniformities of tire can be considered the major sources. This study investigates unbalances and uniformities of tire in which the lateral force variation is highly correlated with shimmy. The hardness of suspension bushes can be modified to change the dynamic behavior of suspension that is effective to reduce the sensitivity of shimmy.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.10
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• pp.973-978
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• 2010

In this paper, we studied the shimmy phenomena of an aircraft nose landing gear considering free-play. Shimmy is a self-excited vibration in lateral and torsional directions of a landing gear during either the take-off or landing. This phenomena is caused by a couple of conditions such as low torsional stiffness of the strut, friction and free-play in the gear, wheel imbalance, or worn parts, and it may make an aircraft unstable. Free-play non-linearity is linearized by the described function for a stability analysis in a frequency domain, and time marching is performed using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. We performed the numerical simulation of the nose landing gear shimmy and investigated its linear and nonlinear characteristics. From the numerical results, we found limit-cycle-oscillations at the speed under linear shimmy speed for the case considering free-play and it can be concluded that the shimmy stability can be decreased by free-play.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.884-891
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• 1993

최근 승용차의 설계는 일반적으로 고속화, 경량화 추세에 있다. 이에 따라 심각하게 대두되고 있는 것이 진동문제로서, 그중에서도 조향계(steering system)의 진동은 보다 쾌적한 승차감 내지 조정성능을 저해하고 운전자에게 불쾌감을 초래하는 진동으로서 이에 대한 개선책이 요구되어 왔다. 따라서 이러한 조향계의 진동인 쉬미(shimmy)현상을 저감시키기 위해서는 다음과 같은 방법등이 있다. 1) 가진원이 되는 타이어의 불균형 질량을 줄이거나 타이어의 정밀도를 증가시키는 방법. 2) 진동전달 경고상의 감쇠특성과 조향계의 강성을 변화시켜 전달률을 줄이는 방법. 3) 차체의 동특성 변화를 통하여 고유진동수를 변화시켜 공진영역을 옮기는 방법. 이 글에서는 쉬미에 큰 영향을 줄 것으로 생각되어지는 여러 중요한 인자들을 단계적으로 포함 시켜가면서 이론해석 결과와 실험결과를 비교 . 검토 . 보완해갈 것이며, 그 결과 이론적으로 쉬미현상을 예측할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.964-969
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1395-1400
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• 2007

Tire flat spot is a deformation which occurs around the contact patch during long-period parking and does hardly recovered even after driving. The deformation makes a tire self-excited and ride comfort gets worse. In this study, it is shown that the flat spot can be evaluated by measuring change in radial run out or force. Its effects on vibration at vehicle floor and steering wheel are also revealed. Finally it is shown that the flat spot is likely to occur if the inflation pressure is low and the tire is suppressed by a heavy load at a high temperature.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.86-94
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• 1995

For a driving vehicle, a self-excited vibration of a pair of steerable wheels about their steering axis accompanied by tramp is called shimmy. Shimmy is caused by the coupling effects of the complicated actions of wheel and tire and the tramp motion of front wheel axle. Because front axle is no longer used on passenger cars shimmy occurring is not considerable. But in commercial vehicles using front wheel axle suspension system shimmy should be considered in design process. In this paper, the model closed to a practical vehicle was developed to analyze the shimmy of a commercial vehicle, and the effects of various design parameters to shimmy were observed by dynamic simulation with multibody dynamics program, DADS. The validity of developed model and analysis results were verified by practical vehicle experiments.