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Reliability Assessment of Tubular Markers Used for Road Safety Facilities (도로안전시설용 시선유도봉의 신뢰성 평가)

  • Koo, Hyun-Jin;Yoon, Ye-Seok
    • Journal of Applied Reliability
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.91-103
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    • 2012
  • Tubular markers for road safety facilities are used to lead the driver's sight line and separate the lanes on the road. Such tubular markers are usually installed on the road and frequently hit by vehicles, they are accordingly requested to assure the product durability. The traditional evaluation method of tubular markers include only quality tests of the material properties. However, most of consuming agencies in charge of road management at fields have proposed problems on long-term performance of the products hit by vehicles under various weather conditions. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to develop the reliability test methods and equipments to simulate the product failures of tubular markers due to vehicle collision and wheel compression and the delamination and discoloration of reflection sheets attached on the surface of the products under high and low temperatures.

Development of ABS(Anti-Lock Brake System) Real-Time Simulator (ABS(Anti-Lock Brake System)의 실시간 시뮬레이터 개발)

  • 김중배
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.229-241
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    • 1999
  • The paper describes the development of the ABS(Anti-Lock Bracke Sytem) real-time simulator which is composed of the real hydraulic modulator, the brake system, and the control software. This useful too supports the development enviornment of the ABS in great flexible mamer. It offers an efficient and cost-effective method of ABS development which includes the various realistic road conditons, the vehicle characteristics , and the brake characteristics. The performance of the ABS is compared with the normal braking results. Thepresented experimental results are braking on the high friction road, thetransient friction road(high to low , low to high), the split friction road, and the high friction road with steer angle. The paper shows the effectiveness and the safety of the ABS compared with the normal brake system , and the powerful and conventient tool in developing the ABS.

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A Study on the Supportive Stiffness in Transitional Zones through Moving Load-Based Three-Dimensional Modeling (이동하중과 3차원 모델링을 통한 접속부 지지강성연구)

  • Woo, Hyeun-Joon;Lee, Seung-Ju;Kang, Yun-Suk;Cho, Kook-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.1542-1549
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    • 2011
  • The Transitional zone between bridge abutment and earthwork is one of the representative vulnerable zones in railway where differential settlements may take place due to the different supportive stiffness. Although transitional zones are managed with stricter standards than those of the other earthwork zones either in the design and construction stages, it is very difficult to prevent differential settlement perfectly. A three-dimensional numerical analyses were performed by applying train moving load in this study. The analytical model including abutments and earthwork zones was constituted with rail, sleepers, track concrete layer (TCL), hydraulic stabilized base (HSB), reinforced road bed, and road bed using railway and road base structure. The clamp connecting the rail and sleeper were also modeled as the element with spring coefficient. The train wheel is modeled in the actual size and moved on the rail with 300 km/hr speed. The deformation characteristics at each point of the rail and the ground were considered in detail when moving the train wheel. The analysis results were compared with those from the two-dimensional analysis without considering moving load. The research results show that displacement and stress were greater in the three-dimensional analysis than in other analyses, and the three-dimensional analysis with moving load should be performed to evaluate railway performance.

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Effect of Road Load Determination Methods on the Fuel Economy Measurement using WMTC in Two-wheel Vehicles (이륜자동차의 주행저항 결정 기법이 WMTC 연비 측정에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Gwang Goo;Yong, Boojoong;Yong, Geejoong
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2018
  • There are some ambiguities of the information on the fuel economy provided to the consumers because the standard and the detailed regulations for the fuel economy of the two-wheeled vehicle have not been established in Korea. Since Korea has been a signatory of World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations since 1998, it is possible to remove the ambiguities by adopting the WMTC (Worldwide-harmonized Motorcycle Test Cycle) measurement method for the fuel economy of the two-wheel vehicle. As a preliminary study on the WMTC mode fuel economy, road loads measured by coast down method and table method were compared for the two types of two-wheeled motorcycles on sales in domestic market. In the same model, it was confirmed that the deviation of WMTC mode fuel efficiency was below -5% between products. On the other hand, the difference of WMTC fuel economy exceeded 5% between the coast down method and table method.

The Severity DB Construction for Unpaved Road Through Measuring 3D Road Profile (3차원 노면굴곡 측정을 통한 운용지역 비포장 기동로의 가혹도 DB 구축)

  • Lee, Jeonghwan;Lee, Sangho;Cho, Jinwoo;Kang, Esok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.231-237
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    • 2017
  • The profile of unpaved road is an important issue in the reliability of endurance test. Efforts on measuring 2D road profile and analyzing the severity have been continued in the study of performing reliable endurance test evaluations through reflecting the results of such measurement and analysis. However, 2D road profile has limitation in measuring the profile in the road width direction because data is obtained along the trailer wheel track. Therefore, in order to measure 3-dimensional shape of road surface and construct severity DB of 3D road profile, Changwon Proving Ground(CPG) of Agency for Defense Development(ADD) developed 3D profilometer which is composed of laser scanner, IMU, GPS, encoder and so on. This paper focuses on the analysis of unpaved road severity using 3D road profile for army operation roads. This results will be used to manage test courses severity of CPG.

Development of a Wheel Slip Control System for Vehicle Cornering Stability (차량 선회 안정성을 위한 휠 슬립 제어시스템 개발)

  • Hong, Dae-Gun;Huh, Kun-Soo;Hwang, In-Yong;SunWoo, Myoung-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.174-180
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    • 2006
  • The wheel slip control systems are able to control the braking force more accurately and can be adapted to different vehicles more easily than conventional braking control systems. In order to achieve the superior braking performance through the wheel slip control, real-time information such as the tire braking force at each wheel is required. In addition, the optimal target slip values need to be determined depending on the braking objectives such as minimum braking distance, stability enhancement, etc. In this paper, a wheel slip control system is developed for maintaining the vehicle stability based on the braking monitor, wheel slip controller and optimal target slip assignment algorithm. The braking monitor estimates the tire braking force, lateral tire force and brake disk-pad friction coefficient utilizing the extended Kalman filter. The wheel slip controller is designed based on the sliding mode control method. The target slip assignment algorithm is proposed to maintain the vehicle stability based on the direct yaw moment controller and fuzzy logic. The performance of the proposed wheel slip control system is verified in simulations and demonstrates the effectiveness of the wheel slip control in various road conditions.

Inverse Kinematic Analysis for a three-axis Hydraulic Fatigue Simulator Coupling (3축 유압 피로 시뮬레이터의 커플링에 대한 역기구학적 해석)

  • Kim, Jinwan
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.16-20
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    • 2020
  • The fatigue happening during the road riding of the vehicle and for the moment the aircraft lands on the runway is closely related to the life cycle of the landing gear, the airframe, the vehicle's suspension, etc. The multiple loads acting on the wheel are longitudinal, lateral, vertical, and braking forces. To study the dynamic characteristics and fatigue stiffness of the vehicle, the dynamic fatigue simulator generally has been used to represent the real road vibration in the lab. It can save time and cost. In hardware, the critical factor in the hydraulic fatigue simulator structure is to decouple each axis and to endure several load vibration. In this paper, the inverse kinematic analysis method derives the magnitude of movement of the hydraulic servo actuator by the coupling after rendering the maximum movement displacement in the axial direction at the center of the dummy wheel. The result of the analysis is that the coupling between the axes is weak to reproduce the real road vibrations precisely.

Road Noise Prediction Based on Frequency Response Function of Tire Utilizing Cleat Excitation Method (크리트 가진법을 이용한 타이어특성에 따른 로드노이즈 예측 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Ho;Hwang, Sung-Wook;Lee, Sang-Kwon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.720-728
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    • 2012
  • It is important for identification of noise and vibration problem of tire to consider influence of interaction between road and tire. A quantification of road noise is a challenging issue in vehicle NVH due to extremely complicated transfer paths of road noise as well as the difficulty in an experimental identification of input force from tire-road interaction. A noise caused by tire is divided into road noise(structure-borne noise) and pattern noise(air-borne noise). Pattern noise is caused by pattern shape of tire, which has larger than 500 Hz, but road noise is generated by the interactions between a tire and a vehicle body. In this paper, we define the quantitative analysis for road noise caused by interactions between tire and road parameters. For the identification of road noise, the chassis dynamometer that is equipped $10mm{\times}10mm $ square cleat in the semi-anechoic chamber is used, and the tire spindle forces are measured by load cell. The vibro-acoustic transfer function between ear position and wheel center was measured by the vibro-acoustic reciprocity method. In this study three tires with different type of mechanical are used for the experiment work.