• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.35-42
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• 1996

The labyrinth seal is one of the widely used non-contact type mechanical seal. Current work was emphasized on the investigation of the air jet effect on the labyrinth seal. To improve the sealing capability of conventional labyrinth seal, air jet was injected against through the leakage flow. In this study, both of the numerical analysis by CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and the experimental measurement were carried out. Both of the turbulence aad the compressible flow model were introduced in CFD analysis. The sealing effect of the leakage clearance and the air jet magnitude were studied in the experiment. The reason of the enhanced sealing was explained as a reduction of effective clearance by jetting air. As a result, the air jet could reduce the effective clearance with a wide range of leakage clearance.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.499-502
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• 2006

This paper presents computed results of FEM analysis on the tribological contact behaviors of a primary sealing components of mechanical face seals for a small hydro-power turbine. The FEM computed results present that the contact area between seal rings and seal seats is very important for a good tribological performance such as low friction heating, low wear, high contact normal stress in a primary seal ing components. Based on the FEM computation, model III in which has a small sealing contact area shows low dilatation of primary sealing components, and high contact stress between a seal ring and a 1)seal seat.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제39권8호
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• pp.703-711
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• 2015

작업의 효율을 높이기 위해서 대형 공장에서 개구부는 주로 개방 되어 있다. 그러나 동절기에 공장에서 난방을 하는 경우 개방되어 있는 개구부는 난방부하를 상승시키는 큰 요인이다. 때문에 공장에서는 개구부 상단에 에어커튼을 설치하여 외부의 침기를 막아 난방부하를 낮춘다. 일반적인 에어커튼의 설계 변수로는 토출 각도와, 속도, 온도 등이 존재하며 이에 대한 연구는 이미 많이 진행되었다. 하지만, 공장이라는 공간적 특수성을 고려하였을 때, 기존에 연구되지 않은 개구부로부터의 이격 거리와 토출구 폭에 대한 부분도 차단 성능에 영향을 미친다. 그 결과 에어커튼은 이격 거리가 가깝고, 토출구 폭은 넓을수록 차단 성능이 좋았다. 이격 거리가 존재하더라도 토출구 폭을 증가시키면 차단 성능이 향상되었으며, 토출구 폭을 증가시킴으로써 약 13.7%의 차단 성능의 향상을 기대할 수 있다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2007

A rubber seal for wheel bearing which has been mainly applied to car wheel supporting device is required to have both high sealing performance and drag torque. Because of severe operational conditions like infiltration of mud or splashed water, the importance of rubber seal which is aimed for leakage prevention of grease and effective blocking of foreign substances has been increasing continuously. The sealing performance of this seal depends on several factors such as materials of seal, friction conditions of contact regions and geometry of seals and so on. We have focused on the effects of geometric characteristics such as the angle of main lip, interference between lip edge and inner metallic ring. In this study, the optimization of geometric variables was performed using the finite element analysis. For the sake of finite element analysis, uniaxial tensile tests were conducted and several constants for Mooney-Rivlin's equation were obtained. According to the results of this study, mock-up bearing was made. To verify this study, drag torque and mud spray test were preformed.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.39-47
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• 2013

Effect of semicircular rib or groove on the performance of a rim-seal was evaluated using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The turbulence was modeled using the one-equation Spalart-Allmaras turbulence closure model. Reynolds number based on the axial chord of the turbine blade was 500,000 at the mainstream outlet. The numerical results for a sealing effectiveness was validated in comparison with experimental data. To examine the effect of the semicircular rib or groove on sealing effectiveness of the rim-seal, location and diameter of the rib or groove were selected as the parameters to be performed. The rim-seals with the semicircular groove showed a higher sealing effectiveness than that with the semicircular rib. The semicircular groove installed on the stator side showed best sealing effectiveness among the numerical simulation results.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1996년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.610-614
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• 1996

Sealing of lubricat-air mixture in the high performance machining conte is one of most the important characteristics to carry out enhanced lubrication. High speed spindle requires non-contact type of sealing mechanism. Evaluating an optimum seal design to minimize leakage is concerned in the aspect of flow control. Effect of geometry and leakage path are evaluated according to variation of sealing geometry, Velocity, pressure, turbulence intensity of profile is calculated to fina more efficient geometry and variables. This offers a methodological way of enhancement seal design for high speed spindle. The working fluid is regarded as two phases that are mixed flow of oil phase and air phase. It is more reasonable to simulate an oil jet or oil mist type high speed spindle lubrication. Turbulence and compressible flow model are used to evaluate a flow characteristic, This paper arranges a geometry of mostly used non-contact type seal and analyzes leakage characteristics to minimize a leakage on the same sealing area.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.151-164
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• 2006

선진 외국에서는 1990년대 초반부터 재래식 도로면 크랙실링 작업의 생산성 및 안전성, 품질을 향상시키고, 도로 이용자의 간접비용을 줄이기 위한 하나의 기술적 접근방법으로 도로면 크랙실링 자동화 장비를 개발하기 위해 다양한 연구노력을 수행해 오고 있다. 최근 국내에서도 도로면 크랙실링 공법의 효용성을 인지하고 재래식 크랙실링 작업을 자동화하기 위해 도로면 크랙실링 자동화 장비(APCS)를 개발해 오고 있다. 본 연구에서는 개발된 크랙실링 자동화 장비의 현장 실험시 재래식 방식과 자동화 방식의 생산성을 효과적으로 비교 측정할 수 있는 생산성 측정 모델을 개발하고, 이를 통해 도출된 생산성 데이터를 바탕으로 경제성 분석 기법(편익/비용 비율 분석, 수익률 분석, 손익분기점 분석, 민감도 분석)을 활용하여 자동화 방식을 도입 적용함으로써 얻을 수 있는 경제적 타당성 분석을 수행하고자 한다. 또한, 재래식 크랙실링 방식을 자동화함으로써 얻을 수 있는 사회적 편익 즉, 교통 혼잡 비용의 감소로 인한 경제적 편익을 시뮬레이션 기법을 활용하여 분석하고자 한다. 이를 통해, 재래식 방식과 비교한 자동화크랙실링 방식의 경제적 타당성 및 사회적 편익을 정량적으로 분석 제시함으로써 개발된 크랙실링 자동화 장비의 실용화 가능성을 높일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제24권11호
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• pp.806-812
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• 2012

Air curtains are widely used in commercial and public buildings to replace solid doors where traffic of people is predicted. At doorways where the solid door is open continuously or intermittently, an air curtain may be installed in order to reduce the flow of heat and moisture from the enclosed space to the outside. The purpose of this paper is to predict isolation performance of the single-sided air curtain when the wind is blowing. For the study, a numerical simulation is used to find the influence of various jet velocities on the efficiency of the single-sided air curtain device which is mounted at the side of the doorway. The isolation performance of the single-sided air curtain is evaluated by sealing efficiency which provides the assessment of the infiltration air ratio. According to the result of this study, the single-sided air curtain has lower sealing efficiency than downward-blowing air curtain. Therefore, for energy conservation in heating space, the single-sided air curtain is not recommended because of its low effectiveness.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2007

Static or dynamic elastomeric O-ring seals are installed between joining parts, and play key roles of high pressure-tightening. Sealing performance and structural safety of the O-ring are dependent on groove design, plain diameter, squeeze and applications such as pressure and temperature. In this study, to solve O-ring problem squeezed and highly pressurized under laterally one-sided constrained condition, hyperelastic FE analyses are performed, and FE results are compared with measured ones by computer-aided tomography, deformed shape and extrusion depth of the O-ring. Through the comparisons, FE analysis technique was verified. In order to evaluate design sensitivity, Taguchi method was used to select FE analysis cases. Adjustment parameters are clearance gap, groove comer radius, plain diameter and squeeze. By means of verified FE analysis technique, it has been analysed how the parameters have effects on contact stress fields, internal stress fields, and extrusion depths. Sealing performance has been evaluated based on contact stress fields and contact widths, and structural safety on internal stress and strain, extrusion lengths.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.916-922
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• 2001

A mechanical face seal is a tribo-element intended to control leakage of working fluid at the interface between a rotating shaft and its housing. Leakage of working fluid decreases drastically as the clearance of the mating seal faces gets smaller. But the very small seal clearance results in an increased reduction of seal life because of high wear and heat generation. Therefore, in the design of mechanical face seals a compromise between low leakage and acceptable seal life is important, and it presents a difficult and practical design problem. A fluid film or sealing dam geometry of the seal clearance affects seal lubrication performance very much, and thereby it is one of the main design considerations. In this study the Reynolds equation for the sealing dam of mechanical face seals is numerically analyzed, using the Galerkin finite element method, which is readily applied to various seal geometries. Film pressures of the sealing dam are analyzed, including the effects of the seal face coning and tilt. Then, lubrication performances of the seals, such as opening forces, restoring moments, leakage, and dynamic coefficients, are calculated, and they are compared to the results obtained by the narrow seal approximation.