• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.883-890
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• 2011

A numerical study was conducted to determine the optimal design for a vehicle vacuum pump. The degree of vacuum was examined for different design factors such as the angle of vanes, number of vanes, angle and position of the pump inlet-outlet pipe, and angular rotational speed of vanes. The results show that there is a little difference in the degree of vacuum when the angle of vanes are changed, but an angular change in the outlet pipe reduces the pump loss. As the rotational speed is increased, the mass flow rate increases, but a high rotational speed does not result in the maximum degree of vacuum. In addition, when the number of vanes is increased, the scattering range of mass flow rate decreases and pressure drop is abated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.761-768
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• 1999

This paper is studied to find the optimum condition of double-inlet Sirocco fan installed in an indoor PAC for low noise operation by the Taguchi method. The goal of this study is to obtain the best combination of each control factor which results in a desired flowrate of Sirocco fan with minimum variability. In this study, the parameter design of the Taguchi method is adopted for robust design by the dynamic characteristic analysis using orthogonal arrays and S/N ratios. The flowrate measurements are conducted by using a multiple-nozzle-type fan tester according to the orthogonal array L9($3^4$). The results of this study can be summarized as follows ; (i) The optimum condition of control factor is a set of where A is an inner to outer diameter ratio($D_1/D_2$), B is a width to outer diameter ratio($L/D_2$), C is a blade attachment angle(${\theta}$) and D is a number of blade(Z), (ii) The flowrate under the optimum condition satisfies the equation $y=0.0384{\cdot}M$ where M is a signal factor, namely number of revolution. The flowrate performance improves about 7.3% more largely as compared with the current condition, which results in about 35RPM reduction of number of revolution for the target flowrate $18.5m^3/min$, and (iii) The sensitivity analysis shows that the major factors in contribution to flowrate performance are A, B, and D ; the percentage contributions of each control factor are 44.01%(Z), 26.77%($D_1/D_2$) and 20.42%($L/D_2$).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.213-217
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• 2008

In this paper, a new design method for IMC-PID that adds a phase scaling factor of system identifications to the standard IMC-PID controller as a control parameter is proposed. Based on analytically derived frequency properties such as gain, phase margin and maximum magnitude of sensitivity function, this tuning rule is an optimal control method determining the optimum values of controlling factors to minimize the cost function, integral error criterion of the step response in time domain, in the constraints of design parameters to guarantee qualified frequency design specifications. The proposed controller improves existing single-parameter design methods of IMC-PID in the inflexibility problem to be able to consider various design specifications. Its effectiveness is examined by a simulation example, where a comparison of the performances obtained with the proposed tuning rule and with other common tuning rules is shown.

• 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.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.1 s.53
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• pp.11-19
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• 2007

This paper proposes an optimal design method of distribution and capacities of linear viscous dampers for vibration control of two adjacent buildings. The previous researches have dealt with suboptimal design problem under the assumption that linear viscous dampers are distributed uniformly or proportionally to the sensitivity of the modal damping ratio according to floors, whereas this study deals with global optimization problem in which the damping capacities of each floor are independently selected as design parameters. For this purpose, genetic algorithm to effectively search multiple design variables in large searching domains is adopted and objective function leading to the global optimal solutions is established through the comparison of several optimal design values obtained from different objective functions with control performance and damping capacity. The effectiveness of the proposed method is investigated by comparing the control performance and total damping capacity designed by the proposed method with those of the previous method. In addition, the time history analyses are performed by using three historical earthquakes with different frequency contents, and the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method is an effective seismic design method for the vibration control of the adjacent structures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.3-11
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• 1996

본 연구는 고체 추진기관의 각종 밀봉 부에 많이 사용되는 O-링의 설계시 고려되는 각종 형상인자의 변화에 따른 O-링의 거동과 응력 상태를 분석하여 설계 최적조건을 찾기 위한 내용을 다루고 있다. 조립 부의 내외경과 조립 공차, 챔퍼길이와 각도, 조립 홈의 외경, 깊이, 폭, 구성반경, O-링의 내경과 선 직경 등의 설계 변수에 의한 조립부 형상과 재료의 물성치, 유한요소 선택 및 요소 분할, 경계조건, 하중조건, 접촉부 정의 등을 MSC/PATRAN3의 $PCL^{[1]}$/로 프로그래밍 하여 설계변수에 의한 결과 분석을 손쉽게 수행할 수 있도록 시도하였다 고무의 Hyperelastic 물성치는 문헌상의 자료$자료^{[2]}$에 제시된 Ogden 상수를 사용하였으며 추후에는 인장시험, 순수전단시험, 이 축 인장시험을 통해 실험적으로 측정$^{[3]}$ 하여 적용할 예정이다. 고무의 대변형, 대 변형률을 고려한 비선형 응력해석은 MSC/PATRAN3의 Advanced FEA 모듈과 ABAQUS 5.5를 사용하였다. 본 연구에서의 해석결과를 설계변수들의 영향을 비교 분석하는데 사용하였으나 그 정확도가 입증된 상태는 아니며 추후 실제 조립 및 수압시험을 통해 평가할 예정이다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.17 no.2 s.75
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• pp.115-130
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• 2005

This paper presents the effects of indirect costs on Life-Cycle-Cost(LCC) effective optimum design of steel-box girder bridges. The LCC formulations considered in the LCC optimization of the bridges consist of initial cost and expected rehabilitation costs including repair/replacement costs, loss of contents or fatality and injury losses, and indirect costs such as road user costs and indirect socio-economic losses. To demonstrate the LCC-effectiveness for optimum design of the bridges, an actual steel box girder bridge having two continuous spans(2@50m=100m) is considered as a numerical example. And also, in this paper, various sensitivity analyses are performed to investigate the effects of indirect costs caused by traffic conditions such as number of detour route, number of lane on detour route, length of detour route, and traffic volumes on the LCC-effective optimum design. From the numerical investigations, it may be concluded that indirect costs caused by traffic network may sensitively influence on the LCC-effective optimum design of steel-box girder bridges. Therefore, it may be stated that the traffic conditions should be considered as one of the important items in the LCC-effective optimum design of the bridges.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.605-609
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• 2010

The present paper describes a conceptual design of a turbopump which employs a planetary gear system. In a launcher system, weight is one of the most important design factor. In turbopump systems using propellants such as kerosene, or methane, single shaft systems are employed because of simplicity. One of the main disadvantages of this system, however, is the same rotational speed of both pumps and a turbine which forces to operate under non-optimum condition. To operate each component in optimum or favorable rotational speeds, a planetary gear system may be the best choice when the compactness and efficiency of a turbopump system is considered. A conceptual design and feasibility of the turbopump system adopting a planetary gear system is suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.58-63
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• 2011

The present paper describes a conceptual design of a turbopump which employs a planetary gear system. In a launcher system, weight is one of the most important design factor. In turbopump systems using propellants such as kerosene, or methane, single shaft systems are employed because of simplicity. One of the main disadvantages of this system, however, is the same rotational speed of both pumps and a turbine which forces to operate under non-optimum condition. To operate each component in optimum or favorable rotational speeds, a planetary gear system seems to be the best choice when the compactness and efficiency of a turbopump system is considered. A conceptual design and feasibility of the turbopump system adopting a planetary gear system is suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.115-122
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• 2010

The importance of the life cycle cost (LCC) analysis for bridges has been recognized over the last decade. However, it is difficult to predict LCC precisely since the costs occurring throughout the service life of the bridge depend on various parameters such as design, construction, maintenance, and environmental conditions. This paper presents a methodology for the optimal life cycle cost design of a bridge. Total LCC for the service life is calculated as the sum of initial cost, damage cost, maintenance cost, repair and rehabilitation cost, user cost, and disposal cost. The optimization method is applied to design of a bridge structure with minimal cost, in which the objective function is set to LCC and constraints are formulated on the basis of Korean Bridge Design Code. Initial cost is calculated based on standard costs of the Korea Construction Price Index and damage cost on damage probabilities to consider the uncertainty of load and resistance. Repair and rehabilitation cost is determined using load carrying capacity curves and user cost includes traffic operation costs and time delay costs. The optimal life cycle cost design of a bridge is performed and the effects of parameters are investigated.