• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2015

NCAP(New Car Assessment Program) makes vehicle manufacturer improve safety performance through free competition and customers guarantee vehicle selection by providing information of vehicle safety. That's why it is important not only to meet the regulation, but also to cope with NCAP. EuroNCAP(European New Car Assessment Program) side tests have conducted by using Progressive MDB and Euro SID II in order to reproduce crash test between two vehicles over 10 years. However various researches report that Progressive MDB and Euro SID II do not reflect evolving vehicle design, impact performance and biofidelity of human. Therefore EuroNCAP has the plan to conduct AE-MDB side crash test using WorldSID which is more evolved from 2015 by replacing Progressive MDB and EuroSID II. Automobile manufacturers need to develop safety performance for new test closely. This paper is to find test set-up parameters which affect into dummy injury instead of restraint system and to research on its tendency. It is processed with mini and small car to know influence as changing vehicle size and also analyzed by DFSS(Design for six sigma) which is one of optimization tools. DFSS is vaildated by simulating CAE with L18 orthogonal array of 6 control factors adjustable as EuroNCAP requirement.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2008

자동차 안전도평가제도는 제작사가 보다 안전한 자동차를 제작하도록 유도하기 위해 충돌시험 등을 통하여 자동차의 안전성을 평가하고, 그 결과를 소비자에게 공개하고 있다. 이것은 자동차 사고로 인한 사회적 손실을 감소시킬 수 있는 효과적인 자동차 안전정책 중의 하나로써, 우리나라는 1999년부터 건설교통부 주관으로 신차평가를 실시하고 있다. 현재 안전도평가 대상차종이 크게 증가하여 안전도평가 대상 차종의 확대가 필요한 시점임에도 불구하고, 현실은 그렇지 못한 실정인데, 그 이유로는 평가인력, 시설 및 비용 등 여러 가지가 있겠으나, 가장 근본적인 이유는 자동차 안전도평가제도의 효과를 정확하게 파악하지 못하기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 자동차 안전도평가제도를 통해 자동차제작사가 자동차의 안전도를 향상시킴으로써 교통사고 발생시 사고의 심각도를 얼마나 줄여줄 수 있는지를 정량적으로 분석함으로써 자동차 안전도평가제도의 효과를 측정해 보고자 하였다. 안전도평가 항목 중 이용가능한 자료가 있는 정면충돌만을 대상으로 정면충돌로인한 사상자 수를 추정하고 안전도가 향상된 차종의 판매대수를 이용하여 자동차 안전도평가제도의 효과를 측정할 수 있는 방법을 개발하였다. 2005년도 자료를 이용하여 정면충돌사고 시 사상자 감소분을 추정해 본 결과, 자동차 안전도평가제도를 시행함으로써 자동차 안전도가 향상되어 2005년 1년 동안 교통사고로 인한 사망자는 약 1.51명, 부상자는 약 446명 감소한 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한교통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한교통학회 2007년도 제56회 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.267-274
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• 2007

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.31-36
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• 2013

For the robust passenger NCAP 5star and the stable neck injury performance, a new concept of passenger airbag has been required strongly. Especially, the deployment stability and the vent hole control technology of the passenger airbag should be improved. According to these requirements, the deployment stability technique has been studied and the 'Active Vent' technology has been developed. As a result, these technologies have led to achieve the robust NCAP rating and are applied to the production vehicles.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2015

In order to protect occupant during car crash accident, Regulation and NCAP(New Car assessment Program) have been developed among various countries like U.S.A., Europe, Korea and Australia. Especially NCAP scores affect to sales of vehicles. So vehicle makers are trying to get good score in NCAP. Low leg injuries play an important role in Australia and Euro NCAP and these injuries are related with footrest design. Optimization of footrest design in early stage of vehicle development is necessary to obtain better and robust results of low legs during crash tests. In this paper, DFSS method and finite element model were used to optimize the low leg performance in small RHD vehicles. Compared with the lower leg injury of base model, the lower leg injury of proposed model was slightly improved and robustness was enhanced also.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2013

The whiplash Injuries due to rear collision occur frequently. As result, in many countries, seat performance is being assessed and developed to improve head whiplash injury in rear collision of passenger car. This study compares whiplash assessment methods in each country. Using the DFSS(Design for Six Sigma) method, the correlation between influence parameters of head restraints and whiplash injury criteria is analyzed. Four control factors are used in this study. And total 11 whiplash injury criteria from NCAP(New Car Assessment Program) of Korea, Europe, China and IIHS(Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) of USA are used for output response. By the experimental design, L9 orthogonal coordinate system is configured and is tested by sled test equipment, twice. By using average assay value and ANOVA, the correlation between control factors and injury criteria has been comprehended. Optimization design of head restraint according the regional seat safety assessment was derived through the correlation.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2010

In proportion to increasing interest in vehicle safety, many country have regulated vehicle safety and performed NCAP(New Car Assessment Program). However vehicles which had good results in these compliance and NCAP frontal crash test have caused problems such as the fork effect and over-riding in real car-to-car accidents. To complement these issues, new frontal crash test modes using new barrier like FWDB and PDB have been developed by EEVC WG15. In this paper, FWDB frontal crash test was performed and the result was compared with the full frontal crash test using the rigid wall in order to comprehend the characteristic of FWDB. The results of FWDB test were compared with one of USNCAP and KNCAP. Using USNCAP data, vehicle performance like deformation and wall force were studied. A comparative study of dummy injuries was made by using KNCAP result. The results showed that vehicle performance of FWDB test like displacement and effective acceleration was similar in spite of absorbing energy of FWDB due to the greater vehicle deformation of rigid wall test. In FWDB test, driver dummy head bottomed out but most of injuries were superior to the injury of rigid wall test.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.81-87
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• 2012

New car assessment program (NCAP) originated from USNCAP in 1979 has been implemented in several countries or markets, for instance USA, Europe, Korea, Japan, China and Australia. NCAP has contributed greatly to reduce accidental tolls. But recently, NCAP performance has no distinction between cars because manufacturer have been continuously developed to improve NCAP performance. Therefore, NHTSA announced new USNCAP protocol becoming effective from MY2011. NHTSA had carried out many NCAP tests based on the new test protocol and announced these test results. In this paper, USNCAP test results were reviewed by statistical method. This review was focused on passenger cars and frontal crash test results in order to investigate effect of changes in new NCAP protocol. There are two key changes, one is sited female dummy in passenger position, the other is enlarged to 4 scoring body regions in each dummy. Results of this review were summarized as followings. Performance in Passenger (12.5%) is lower than Driver's (50%) for number of 5 star vehicle. Neck injury criterion is dominant to NCAP star rating for both dummies in the mean sense. For standard deviation, chest deflection is showed largest value in driver dummy but neck injury criterion is showed for passenger's. DKAB and PKAB were equipped 28.1% and 6.2%, respectively. Consequently, the countermeasure for new USNCAP frontal crash test is essential to control well dummy kinematics with some safety features including KAB to reduce neck injuries.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2004

The severe frontal crash tests are NCAP with belted occupant at 35mph and FMVSS 208 with unbelted occupant at 25mph, This paper describes the design process of occupant protection systems, airbag and seat belt, under the two tests. In this study, NCAP simulations are performed by Monte Carlo search method and cluster analysis. The Monte Carlo search method is a global optimization technique and requires execution of a series of deterministic analyses, The procedure is as follows. 1) Define the region of interest 2) Perform Monte Carlo simulation with uniform distribution 3) Transform output to obtain points grouped around the local minima 4) Perform cluster analysis to obtain groups that are close to each other 5) Define the several feasible design ranges. The several feasible designs are acquired and checked under FMVSS 208 simulation with unbelted occupant at 25mph.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1020-1027
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• 2014

자동차 전자 제어 장치의 확대 보급에 따라 관련 장치의 오동작으로 인해 발생하는 자동차 사고 및 인명 손실을 최소화하기 위해 ISO 26262가 제정되어 완성 차량 제작사는 물론 부품 공급사에 적용되고 있다. 이 규격에서는 자동차 전체 시스템을 대상으로 개발 초기부터 생산/폐기에 이르기까지 전체 생명주기에서의 안전 요구사항을 적용토록 요구하고 있으며, 전자파 적합성 분야도 중요한 검토 항목으로 규정되어 있다. 따라서 자동차의 설계, 제조, 검증, 사용, 유지보수기간 동안 각 단계별로 적용할 EFS(EMC for Functional Safety)에 대한 개발과 연구가 절실히 필요한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 ISO26262의 적용에 따라 EFS를 어떻게 적용할 수 있는가를 검토하였다. 이러한 검토 결과를 적용하여 자동차의 기능 안전성 확보를 위해 EFS 평가를 강제 법규화하거나 또는 신차 안전도 평가(NCAP) 항목으로 확대 적용함으로써 제작사 스스로가 안전성 확보를 위한 절차를 수행하도록 규정할 필요가 있다.