• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.231-236
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• 2009

Recently, The Hydroforming technology has recognized general technique in manufacture industry. Especially automotive industry, It has applied to increase strength, and decrease weight, cost and part number. The rigid axle suspension type is widely used for truck and bus in commercial vehicles due to simplicity. To develop the hydroforming rigid axle, it is necessary to estimate of the characteristics of front suspension from the design process. In this study, the characteristics estimation of the hydroforming rigid axle is preformed using Finite Element Analysis and apply to shape optimization.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.169-173
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• 2008

This study is concerned with adopting the hydroforming method in the front axle of the commercial vehicle. Generally the front axle of the commercial vehicle is made bγ the several operations of press forging. This product supports the big weight of the vehicle and load. The weight of the press forging parts is also so more than it of the press parts of the passenger car. So, we have studied the hydroforming method to lessen the weight of the front axle of the commercial vehicle. To apply the hydroforming method in the commercial vehicle, we had to use the operation of reducing the diameter of the used tube prior to the hydorforming operation.