• Composites Research
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.243-248
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• 2019

As demand of light weight in the automotive industry has increased, the cowl cross member has been investigated using various methods to change the material. Conventionally, a cowl cross member has been made of steel and aluminum, but recently researchers tested multi-material such as aluminum and plastic. We studied a new model of the cowl cross member made of composite and non ferrous materials. For products with a high degree of freedom in design, generally, the method of topology optimization is advantageous and for the partial bracket part of the cowl cross member had a degree of freedom in the design, a topology optimization is appropriate. Considering the characteristics of the cowl cross members, we need research to minimize the weight while having the performance of noise, vibration and harshness(NVH). Taking the mounting status of the product into consideration, we used an assembly model to optimize the cowl cross member. But this method took too much time so we considered simple cowl cross member assemble conditions using the direct matrix input method(DMI) with the Craig-Bampton Nodal Method. This method is capable of considering the status of the assembly without assembling the model, which reduced the solving time and increased the accuracy comparison with a cowl cross member without DMI.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.538-543
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• 2009

The cowl cross bar of an automobile is a frame component that is installed inside the cockpit module to provide a guide surface, to which functional components for electricity and air condition are attached. In the recent years, the geometries of cowl cross bars are getting more complex in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of embedded functional components and the reduced weight of frame parts with enhanced mechanical and noise/vibration characteristics. There for, welding processes between tubes with different diameters are widely conducted while the welded parts are experiencing various problems such as undermined appearance, low production efficiency and poor mechanical characteristics. Therefore, this paper seeks to develop an one-piece forming process which eliminate welding process for the cowl cross bar by applying the tube drawing process. However, it was predicted that a conventional tube drawing can not be applied directly to the current part since the area reduction ratio of the drawing process reaches 51.7% which exceeds the general limiting value. Therefore, in this study, a combined drawing process which adds a compressive force to a tensile force of the conventional drawing process was proposed and 2-stage drawing process was designed by using CAE analyses. In addition, drawing tryouts were carried out by using the manufactured combined drawing machine in order to verify the designed process.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.525-531
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• 2014

A cowl cross is a part of the car's instrument panel used to maintain the rigidity of the vehicle body side. The application of laser welding has the benefits of speed and thermal deformation compared to arc welding. An ultra-high strength steel sheet is used to reduce the weight of the vehicle body parts. Generally, formability of such a steel sheet is poor because its elongation is very low. For this reason, a method for cold forming of an ultra-high strength steel sheet is required. This paper describes how to improve the formability and weldability of the ultra-high strength steel sheet. Mechanical tests of this material were also performed to evaluate the welding properties of $CO_2$ (GMAW) and those of laser welding.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.236-239
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• 2009

Cowl cross bar, a component of automotive cockpit module, has been manufactured by using welding processes of several tube parts with different diameters. However, in order to reduce costs and increase the quality, it is required to develop a new production method to manufacture the cowl cross bar as one-piece In this study, therefore, eliminating the welding process, tube drawing process which is one of metal forming processes was designed by using combined drawing technique. In addition, the selectable range of area reduction ratio was defined as a design guideline and the designed process sequence was verified by finite element analysis.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.29-41
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• 2023

This study is about a hybrid lightweight cowl crossbeam structure with high rigidity and ability to absorb collision energy to support the cockpit module, which is an automobile interior part, and to absorb energy during a collision. It is a manufacturing process in which composite material bracket parts are inserted and injected into existing steel bars. When considering the mounting condition of a vehicle, the optimization of the fastening condition of the two parts and the mechanical properties of the composite material is acting as an important factor. Therefore, this study is about a composite material having a volume content of Polyamide(PA) and Glass Fiber used as a composite material for a composite material-metal hybrid cowl crossbeam. As a result of analyzing the physical properties of the PA/GF composite material, experimental data were obtained that can further enhance tensile strength and flexural strength by using PA66 rather than PA6 used as a base material for the composite material. And based on this, it contributed to securing the advantage of lightening by using high-stiffness composite material by improving the high disadvantage of the weight of the cowl crossbeam material, which was made only of existing metal materials.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.332-337
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• 2016

The automobile cowl cross bar which is a backbone frame part holding electrical and air conditioning components inside the cockpit module has been designed with more complex geometries recently due to demands of its enhanced functions and reduced weight of frame parts. The traditional manufacturing process using welding between tubes with different diameters shows several problems such as poor mechanical characteristics and appearance, etc. Therefore, in this study, one-piece manufacturing processes which can eliminate the welding process were developed by applying the rotary swaging process. CAE analyses were conducted to examine the feasibility of the process and prototypes were manufactured by using a rotary swaging machine with 4 split rotating dies and 12 head rollers. Bending tests of the manufactured prototypes confirmed that the rotary swaging process gives better mechanical properties comparing with the conventional processes.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.275-281
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• 2017

카울크로스바는 차체의 계기판 후면에 설치되는 보강 부품으로서 최근 부품의 기능 개선 및 차량 경량화의 요구로 인하여 점차 복잡한 형상의 제품이 개발되고 있다. 특히, 제품 좌우의 지름과 두께가 서로 다른 경우에 이직경 파이프의 용접을 통하여 제품이 생산되는데, 외관 품질 및 기계적 성질의 저하 문제가 지속적으로 제기되어 소성 가공을 이용한 일체화 성형 기법의 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 좌우 형상이 서로 다른 직선형 카울크로스바에 대한 일체화 성형 기법으로서 복합 인발 공정과 스웨이징 공정을 개발하였으며 기계적 성질 및 생산비의 관점에서 개발 공정들을 비교하고자 한다. 결론적으로 일체화 성형 제품이 기존 용접 제품에 비해 우수한 굽힘 강도를 보이며 스웨이징 공정을 사용할 경우 보다 저렴한 비용으로 생산이 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.377-383
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• 2011

This study proposed the new method of discerning the assembled parts and presuming the position of central point in a Cowl Cross Bar (CCB) using a Charge-Couple Device (CCD) camera attached to a robot in the auto assembly line. Three control points of an ellipse were decided by three reference points, which were equally distanced. The radii of these reference points were determined by the size of the object, and the repeated presumption secured the precise determination. The comparison of the central point of ellipse presumed by Randomized Hough Transform (RHT) with the part information stored in a database was used for determining the faulty part in an assembly. The method proposed in this study was applied for the real-time inspection of elliptical parts, such as bolt, nut hole and so on, connected to a CCB using a CCD camera. The findings of this study showed that the precise decision on whether the parts are inferior or not can be made irrespective of the lighting condition of industrial site and the noises of the surface of the part. In addition, the defect decision on the individual elliptic parts assembled in a CCB showed more than 98% accuracy within a 500-millisecond period at most.

• Composites Research
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.360-364
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• 2020

차량의 경량화를 위해 기존의 스틸로 제작된 카울크로스멤버를 마그네슘, 플라스틱으로 연구개발이 진행되었으나, 차량 장착상태의 성능적인 문제로 적용이 어려운 실정이다. 최근 부품양산에 가장 적합한 경량화 부품으로 복합소재 인서트 사출 카울크로스멤버에 대한 연구를 진행하고 있다. 이는 알루미늄 바에 복합소재 브라켓 부품을 인서트 사출하는 제조 공정으로 차량의 장착 상태를 고려할 때, 두 부품의 체결상태가 중요한 요소 중에 하나이다. 본 연구에서는, PA6-GF60 복합소재에 알루미늄 바를 인서트 사출하기 위한 연구로 알루미늄 바의 접합강도가 중요한 요소 중에 하나이다. 이를 위한 연구방법으로 알루미늄 바에 접착제를 분사하는 방식과 널링처리를 한 경우에 대해, 카울크로스멤버의 알루미늄 바와 복합재료 사출부품 형상간의 부분 파트별로 횡방향과 회전방향에 대한 접합강도를 분석 연구하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.571-576
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• 2001

Hydroforming, the new production technology, has been used to manufacture many parts of vehicle in the recent auto industry. When Hydroforming is applied, it is possible to make parts simplification and flexible alteration of section shape in many advantages such as weight reduction, number of parts reduction or performance improvement. This research into shape optimization which reduces number of parts and weight maintaining performance was achieved. In this paper, the COWL CROSS BAA and MT'g BAKT parts of A car STEERING support SYSTEM was introduced by using Hydroforming.