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COMPUTATIONAL DURABILITY PREDICTION OF BODY STRUCTURES IN PROTOTYPE VEHICLES

  • Kim, H.-S.;Yim, H.-J.;Kim, C.-B.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 2002
  • Durability estimation of a prototype vehicle has traditionally relied heavily on accelerated durability tests using predefined proving grounds or rig tests using a road simulator. By use of those tests, it is very difficult to predict durability failures in actual service environments. This motivated the development of an integrated CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) methodology for the durability estimation of a prototype vehicle in actual service environments. Since expensive computational costs such as computation time and hardware resources are required for a full vehicle simulation in those environments with a very long span of event time, the conventional CAE methodologies have little feasibility. An efficient computational methodology for durability estimations is applied with theoretical developments. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is shown by the comparison of results of the typical actual service environment such as the city mode with those of the typical accelerated durability test over the Belgian road.

4Degrees of freedom control for a magnetically levitated vehicle

  • Kim, Kook-Hun;Kim, Choon-Kyung;Kim, Jong-Moon;Cho, Chang-Hee;Park, Min-Kook
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10b
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    • pp.327-332
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    • 1993
  • One maglev vehicle is composed of 6 r 8 modules. Each module is composed of 4 staggered magnets attached to an aluminum bogie. In the view point of levitation control except propulsion by LIM, 5 is the maximum degrees of freedo to be controlled. But rolling control of the vehicle depends on the bogie structure. We describe just anti-roll type out of bogie structures and 4 degrees of freedom control is sufficient for levitation quality improvement. Multivariable pole-placement concept and the decentralized control concept are used for controller design. Computer simulation and control experiment are performed on a specially designed test module.

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Structural Weld Strength Analysis on Door Hinge of Field Artillery Ammunition Support Vehicle (자주포용 탄약 운반 궤도차량 도어힌지 용접부 구조강도 해석)

  • Kang, Hyeon-Je;Kim, Byeong-Ho;Kim, Byung-Hyun;Seo, Jae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.58-65
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    • 2016
  • This study analyzed the structural weld strength for a door hinge for a field artillery ammunition support vehicle. In order to determine the optimal conditions, we measured the modal analysis and analyzed the leg length of a rear door hinge. From these methods, we acquired the vibration frequency of normal mode and the optimal welding leg length conditions. It was possible to obtain a structural stability for a rear door hinge of the field artillery ammunition support vehicle. In the future, this should be used as a reference source for the weld strength analysis of high vibration and high weight structures for another welding system design.

Analysis of Vehicle Vibration Characteristics Using SEA (SEA를 이용한 차량 진동 특성 해석)

  • Chai, Jangbom;Kim, Taekwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.15 no.6 s.99
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    • pp.674-679
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    • 2005
  • Statistical Energy Analysis(SEA) has been considered as a Possible method for predicting responses of complex structures, especially at higher frequencies. In this paper, an SEA model of a vehicle was built using 138 energy storing subsystems connected together using 1019 Junctions. SEAM software program was used to build and calculate the model. To demonstrate the accuracy of the SEA model, predicted response levels were compared with measured levels. The source Input levels were measured at the engine mounting parts. There is good agreement between the estimated and the experimental results. This paper also identifies some dominant energy flow paths from sources. It is finally presented that the SEA model can optimize the design parameters of vehicles using model parameters and energy flow paths.

Implementation of Analysis Tool and Design of Event Recorder in Express Railway (고속열차용 Event Recorder 설계와 분석도구의 구현)

  • Kim, Kwang-Ryul;Jang, Dong-Wook;Han, Kwang-Rok;Sohn, Surg-Won;Ryu, Hee-Mon;Song, Gyu-Youn
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.1159-1160
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    • 2008
  • For safety railway vehicle movement, analysis and recoding of railway vehicle speed and driving information has written by law. nowadays, base in europe, these system is spread of various advanced country. In this paper, We implement an event recorder which record the driving and breaking information of running railway vehicle. For the event recorder, We designed the data structures with data analysis tools and a protocol between Event recorder and data analysis tool. The verification of Analysis tool was tested by to made data by Event Recorder's emulator and information of real railway driving recording.

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A Study on the Development of Test Rig for High Speed Frontal Crash and Test of Members

  • Shin-You. Kang;In-Bae. Chang;Jang, Hye-Jeong
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a simple test rig of high-speed crash for the front members of vehicles was developed for the improvement of crashworthiness of vehicle's side rail. The cart hanging the specimen is accelerated up to 35 mph by the traction wire and by the force of freely dropping weight and 1:3 accelerating pulleys. The cart with shock absorbers travels on the rail roads, so it does not transfer any additional vibration to the specimen. In order to measure the energy absorbed by the specimen when it collapse to the wall and during it deform, the two strain gage type load cells are used at the wall place. The test rig rated good to test the specimen like a side rail of vehicle as developing the vehicle's structures in the early design stage.

Assessment of the aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic performance of a high-lift reentry vehicle

  • Pezzella, Giuseppe
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.109-124
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    • 2015
  • This paper deals with the aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic trade-off analysis of a hypersonic flying test bed. Such vehicle will have to be launched with an expendable launcher and shall re-enter the Earth atmosphere allowing to perform several experiments on critical re-entry phenomena. The demonstrator under study is a re-entry space glider characterized by a relatively simple vehicle architecture able to validate hypersonic aerothermodynamic design database and passenger experiments, including thermal shield and hot structures. A summary review of the aerodynamic characteristics of two flying test bed concepts, compliant with a phase-A design level, has been provided hereinafter. Several design results, based both on engineering approach and computational fluid dynamics, are reported and discussed in the paper.

Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Nonlinear Vehicle Frame Structures (비선형 차체프레임구조물의 민감도해석 및 최적화)

  • Won, Chong-Jin;Lee, Jong-Sun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.2833-2842
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    • 1996
  • This paper is to practice optimal rigidity design by the strain energy density estimation method for static buckling and sizing design sensitivity analysis for dynamic buckling of a nonlinear vehicle frame structure from those results. Using these sizing design sensitivity resutls, an optimization of a nonlinear vehicle frame structure with dynamic buckling constraint is carrried out with the graient projection method.

An Study of Optimization on Vehicle Body Stiffness using CAE Application (CAE를 응용한 차체강성 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • 최명진;송명준;장승호
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2001
  • One of the most important purposes in the design of machines and structures is to produce the most light products of the lowest price with satisfying function and performance. In this study, a scheme of design optimization for the weight down of vehicle body structure is presented. Design sensitivity of vehicle body structure is investigated and design optimization is performed to get weight down with the allowable stiffness of body in white. Stress, deformation and natural frequencies are the constraint of the optimization.

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An Evaluation of Structural Test and Analysis for Composites Vehicle Structures of Automatic Guideway Transit (자동무인경전철 복합재 차체 구조물의 구조 시험 및 해석적 평가)

  • Ko, Hee-Young;Shin, Kwang-Bok;Cho, Se-Hyun;Kim, Dae-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1103-1108
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes the results of structural test and finite element analysis for rubber wheel-type Automatic Guideway Transit(AGT) made of aluminum honeycomb sandwich composites with WR580/NF4000 glass-fabric epoxy laminate face sheets. The static tests of vehicle structure were conducted according to JIS E7l05. These static tests have been done under vertical load, compressive load and 3-point support load. The structural integrity of AGT vehicle structure was evaluated by displacement, stress obtained from LVDT and strain gauges, and natural frequency. And finite element analysis using Ansys v11.0 was done to compare with the results of static test. The result showed that the results of structural integrity for static test were in an good agreement with these of finite element analysis.

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