• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.104-112
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• 2014

Generally, numerical approaches of evaluation for vehicle seat comfort have been studied without considering time-dependent characteristics and the only seating moment have been considered in seat design. However, the comfort not only at the seating moment but also in the long-term should be evaluated because the passengers are sitting repeatedly on the seat to drive the vehicle for hours. So, the aim of this paper is to carry out a quantitative evaluation of the time-dependent mechanical characteristics of seat foams and to suggest a process for predicting the viscoelastic deformation of seat foam in response to long-term driving. To characterize the seat materials, uniaxial compression and tension tests were carried out for the seat foam and stress relaxation tests were performed for evaluating the viscoelastic behavior of the seat foam. A unit solid element model was used to verify the reliability of the material model with respect to the compression behavior of the seat foam. It is not straightforward to evaluate the time-dependent compression of foams using the explicit solver because the viscoelastic material model is limited. To use the explicit solver, the material model must be modified using stress-degradation data. Normalized stress relaxation moduli were added to the stress-strain curves obtained under static conditions to achieve a time-dependent set of stress-strain relations that were compatible with the implicit solver. There was good agreement between the analysis results and experimental data.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1062-1069
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• 2011

In electro-galvanizing line to manufacture the electro-galvanized steel sheet, polishing system is required to maintain clean surface of conductor roll and to secure the quality of the steel sheet. At the same time, prediction and decision of the replacement cycle for felt material and its brush installed in the polishing system is also important because the brush is directly contacted on the conductor roll surface. In this study, the polishing system has been designed which the brush is repetitive translating according to the longitudinal direction of the conductor roll. Furthermore, the prediction on the wear-life of the felt material used for the brush is performed using the contact pressure extracted by finite element analysis. And to verify the predicted wear-life of the felt material, the experimental study is also carried out. From the comparison result between the predicted and the measured wear-life of the felt material, it is presented that the wear-life and the replacement cycle of the felt material are well predicted by considering a wear compensation factor, and the wear compensation factor is useful and reasonable.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권11호
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• pp.1471-1476
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• 2011

자동차 배기계의 앞쪽에 배치된 촉매변환기는 배기가스 중 유해한 성분을 무해한 것으로 변환하는 제품이다. 이것의 중심부인 담체는 단면의 윤곽이 원형이나 타원형이고 내부는 미세한 격자형 벽으로 채워진다. 담체를 매트로 두르고 캔에 넣는 캐닝공정 중 과대한 압력을 받아서 담체가 취성파괴될 것이 염려된다. 담체의 파괴를 방지하고자 매트의 압력의 분포를 예측하는 유한요소 프로그램을 개발하였다. 이것은 Microsoft EXCEL로 작성되어 입출력이 모두 간편하다. 담체는 강체, 캔은 선형탄성체로 단순하게 취급하고 매트의 재료비선형성을 고려하였다. 캔은 굽힘과 균일인장이나 압축에 저항하는 것으로 모델링하였다. 편의상 요소의 갯수는 35개, 반복 횟수는 20회로 제한하였다. ABAQUS의 해석결과와 잘 일치하여 본 프로그램의 타당성을 입증하였다.