• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2014

Recently Korea and many countries are legislated for pedestrian protection as following the GTR(Global Technical Regulation). Most NCAP organization have been applying pedestrian protection results in their own rating system in individual or overall rating. Euro NCAP agency has been introduced it first. From the beginning, Euro NCAP had assessed occupant and pedestrian protection. It has become to strengthen a pedestrian protection protocol every time published. Korea NCAP also has been rating pedestrian protection with overall rating system. This paper proposed to study new pedestrian protection protocol especially upper leg in order to find injury response based on physical test. On Euro NCAP, the upper leg injury are assessed two kind of value which are bending moment and force.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.82-91
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• 2012

This paper deals with the development and feasible study of the train to pedestrian protection airbag. The concept of the airbag system is to protect the pedestrian like as workers on railroad. The airbag system includes cushions, gas generators, a housing, sliding fixture, anti-bouncing airbag, and a leg protection bumper. Those things were designed and fabricated. The performance of the airbag system was evaluated in the sense of the static deployment test, drop test, dynamic motion test and field(train level) test. The deployment logic, TTF(Time to fire), and the inner pressure of the cushion were also investigated for the airbag.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.100-107
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• 2013

Although automotive safety technologies have been developed steadily, the efforts for pedestrian protection still seems to be insufficient. In a car-pedestrian accident, the structures such as the engine under a hood, the lower part of a windshield and the A-pillar are the major causes of fatal pedestrian injuries. Recently, there have been several studies on the active safety system to reduce the pedestrian injuries. The safety system consists of an active hood lift system and a pedestrian airbag. In this research, the safety performance of the active hood lift system and the pedestrian airbag is investigated by using the finite element method. The finite element model of the system is set up based on the head impact test, and the impact analyses are performed. The necessity and the usefulness of the safety system are verified.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.36-45
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• 2014

Pedestrian to vehicle traffic accidents show a very high mortality rate compared to the frequency of occurrence. In order to improve the pedestrian protection performance of the vehicle, the korean government added a "pedestrian safety" entry from the year 2007. The performance for pedestrian protection of current vehicles gradually improved compared to the past, but it is still insufficient. It was found that the pedestrian protection performance was very weak, such as the top of the bonnet, the A-pillar and under the front windshield. A application of an active hood and pedestrian protection airbags can be countermeasures for these weak points of pedestrian safety. The active hood and pedestrian protection airbags are designed and manufactured to apply to the top of the hood and to the bottom of the windshield. The manufactured system is equipped in a test vehicle and evaluated based on the Korea New Car Assessment Program(KNCAP) test procedures for the performance of pedestrian safety. As a result, the outstanding effect of pedestrian protection has been achieved by the active hood and the pedestrian protection airbag. The rates of pedestrian injury are reduced by 82.2% and 95.4%, respectively.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2006

IHRA Pedestrian Working Group has investigated and analyzed the current status of pedestrian-vehicle accidents in IHRA member countries. According to the results, European countries and Japan are working on new regulations to improve passive pedestrian protection on passenger cars significantly. Although IHRA proposed pedestrian test procedures, which may provide a basis of technical regulations in the future, further research and development are necessary to refine the procedures. In order to prepare and satisfy the pedestrian protection requirements, domestic passenger vehicles also should be tested. Among various safety-related studies based on accident data analysis, dealing with pedestrian head injury would be considered one of the keen interests. In this study, the pedestrian headform impact test system is developed. The developed system will be useful to carry out validation study of the test procedures through actual tests using sample vehicles, and to explore the car feasibility level prior to the use of the test methods in legislation.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.24-32
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• 2016

The mortality rate of car-pedestrian accidents is quite high, compared to the frequency of accidents. Researches on pedestrian protection are being actively performed worldwide. The A-pillar and lower part of the wind shield cause the most serious damage to the pedestrians. Typical devises to protect the pedestrians are the hood lift system and pedestrian airbag. The design of such devices for an sport utility vehicle is performed based on a design process using design of experiments (DOE). The design results are obtained by an orthogonal array (OA), analysis of mean (ANOM) and analysis of variance (ANOVA). A metamodel is also used in the design process.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제38권9호
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• pp.1019-1027
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• 2014

차대 보행자 교통사고는 발생빈도에 비하여 사망률이 매우 높은 특징이 있다. 전세계적으로 정부 및 보험사에서는 보행자 보호를 위한 새로운 안전기준을 수립 및 강화하는 추세이다. 보행자 보호 성능을 향상시키기 위하여 한국정부는 2007 년부터 신차안전도평가에서 보행자 안전을 평가하고 있다. 보행자 보호 성능은 점진적으로 향상되었으나 여전히 미흡한 상태이다. 전개형 후드 및 보행자 에어백 등으로 구성되어 있는 보행자 보호 시스템은 보행자 보호를 위한 대안이 될 수 있다. 보행자의 머리상해기준값을 감소시키기 위하여 새롭게 정의된 설계방법론을 바탕으로 보행자 에어백 설계 절차를 제안하였다. 제안된 설계방법론을 실용적인 측면에서 검토하였고 보행자 보호 시스템의 제작에 적용이 가능하다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2008

This study is on pedestrian protection device using pneumatic cylinder and simple link mechanism when vehicle collide with pedestrian. This study ensured the safety space between engine and hood after it applies to simple link mechanism and pneumatic cylinder. It can absorb the damage which measure the specific device if vehicle collide with pedestrian. Combination of simple link mechanism and pneumatic cylinder was more superior than the present pedestrian protection device. Simple link mechanism could confirm superior height and survival probability than when only cylinder operated. It also ensured enough space between engine and hood. And if a cylinder is not working because of old cylinder, poor repair or damage of accident vertical cylinder would be difficult to execute because there exists the irregular space between engine and hood. If simple link mechanism operates with only one cylinder it could ensure the regular space because simple link mechanism set up at the middle of hood. So this device could confirm high safety for pedestrian.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.968-972
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• 2007

자동차 범퍼시스템은 자동차의 외형을 결정할 뿐만 아니라 충격으로부터 차체와 보행자를 보호하는 중요한 역할을 수행한다. 본 연구에서는 범퍼시스템을 해석하기 위하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션이나 충격테스트에 의존하지 않고 효과적으로 범퍼시스템을 설계하기 위한 설계기술을 개발하였다. 이를 위해서 차체를 외부 충격으로부터 보호하기 위해 충분한 강도 및 강성을 확보해야 한다는 것과 동시에 충돌 시 보행자 보호를 위해 충분한 연성을 확보해야 하는 조건을 만족시킬 수 있는 빔의 단면과 폼의 두께 또는 물성을 결정해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 설계자가 설계 초기단계에서 위의 제약 조건들을 만족하는 최적의 범퍼구조를 신속하게 결정할 수 있는 신뢰성 있는 설계기술을 개발하였다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.52-56
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• 2012

Recently, the pedestrian protection regulations of Europe and Japan are becoming more stringent. However, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of protection because each regulation has different test conditions such as dummy, impact speed and so on. In this study, we construct a finite element model of pedestrian lower legform impactor prescribed in EEVC (European Experimental Vehicle Committee) W/G 10, and performed a impact analysis between the impactor and the front end module of vehicle. The simulations are carried out by using LS-DYNA3D, which is a well-known nonlinear dynamic simulation software. The analysis results according to various impact location show the impact characteristics of the lower legform.