• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.174-185
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• 2002

The automotive industry faces many competitive challenges including weight and cost reduction to meet need for higher fuel economy. Tailored blanks offer the opportunity to decrease door weight, reduce manufacturing costs, and improve door stiffness. Optimization technology is applied to the inner panel of a door which is made by tailored blanks. The design of tailored blanks door starts from an existing door. At first, the hinge reinforcement and inner reinforcement are removed to use tailored blanks technology. The number of parts and the welding lines are determined from intuitions and the structural analysis results of the existing door. Size optimization is carried out to find thickness while the stiffness constraints are satisfied. The door hinge system is optimized using design of experiment approach. A commercial optimization software MSC/NASTRAN is utilized for the structural analysis and the optimization processes.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.60-68
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• 2022

We report on the design of the secondary and the tertiary mirrors used in lightweight assemblies made entirely of silicon carbide (SiC). The essential design points are weight reduction within the acceptable deformation of the mirror surface by gravity release, temperature change, and vibration during or after space launch. To find a design that achieves the target requirements, we established finite element models for various candidate designs and subjected each one to wave front error analyses along gravity directions and in operation temperatures. We also calculated the natural frequencies of the candidate assemblies. Our study suggested that a triangular cell with bipod flexure support can satisfy the target weight within the requirements.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.58-63
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• 2005

In order to minimize weight of vehicle seat, an optimum design of aluminum seat is presented while satisfying stress and fatigue life constraints. In this study, the analysis model is validated by comparing it's stress with that of test. Then, two-level orthogonal array is used to estimate the design sensitivity for 7 design variables. Finally, the sequential approximate optimization (SAO) is performed using the constructed RSM models. The approximate RSM models are sequentially updated using the analysis results corresponding to the approximate optimum obtained during the SAO. After 14 analyses, the SAO gives an optimal design that can reduce 16.7$\%$ of weight while increasing 369$\%$ of fatigue life and satisfying stress constraint.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.361-363
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• 2007

The light weight aluminum subframe for automobile chassis part was developed using hybrid process, i.e. extruforming, press stamping and MIG welding. To achieve a 30 % weight reduction compared with conventional steel subframe keeping satisfactory performance, the design of cross-section of extruforming part was introduced, then forming simulation was performed and the final design was determined. In addition, we tried to estibilish optimun aluminum welding conditions for good penetration depth and few pore defact, finally the prototype of aluminum subframe was assembled using MIG welding method.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.800-801
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• 2011

This paper proposes a grid-connected to rotor type doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) in which the rotor winding is connected to the grid instead of the stator winding. The stator size and weight of the proposed grid-connected to rotor type DFIG can be reduced because the proposed type can use rotor core more efficiently compared to the stator type DFIG. In order to verify the size and weight reduction of the proposed type, the loading distribution method (LDM) is utilized. As a design result, the stator outer diameter and weight of the proposed type were decreased. The equivalent circuit analysis and finite element method also performed to verify the design results and to analyze characteristics of the novel DFIG.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.823-826
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• 2001

A shape optimization of a rib of a bolster of a bogie frame is attempted and a dimension optimization on upper and lower plates is also carried out for the reduction of the weight of bogie frame. In addition, the dynamic characteristics of the weight reduced model are investigated by an analysis of a natural frequency and a transient analysis. The results show that the first natural frequency of an optimized model is larger than that of the lowest design value. And the results of transit analysis based on the experimental stress also show smaller value than the yield stress. Thus the optimized model attempted in this study is considered to be structurally stable and useful for the improvement of railway carriages.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.579-584
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• 2004

In development of the bogie, the fatigue strength of the bogie frame is an important design criteria. Also the bogie frame weight reduction is required in order to save energy and materials. In this study. structural analysis of bogie frame by using the finite element method has been performed for the various loading conditions according to the UIC standards and it has been attempted minimize the weight of bogie frame by back-propagation neural network and genetic algorithm. Finite element mesh generation and finite element analysis were performed by Altaire Hyper Mesh and ABAQUS.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.561-566
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• 2017

기존 STKM11A steel 소재로 설계된 자동차용 텐션링크를 인장강도 245 MPa인 알루미늄 합금(A356) 소재로 대체하기 위한 경량화 설계 과정이 인장, 굽힘 및 비틀링 강성의 변화 측면에서 연구하였다. 부품들의 안전성을 희생시키지 않고 자동차 부품 경량화를 이루기 위해 많은 연구자들이 보다 가볍고 강한 서스펜션 링크들에 관한 연구를 진행해 왔다. 기존 I-빔 형태의 단면을 지닌 링크는 특별한 방향에 대하여 약한 단점이 있을 수 있으므로 경량화 이후에도 모든 방향의 하중을 견딜 수 있는 최적의 링크부품 형상을 연구하였다. 다양한 형태의 링크들을 설계 및 분석하여 최적의 형상을 얻을 수 있었다. 최적화된 설계는 경량화 이전 steel 소재로 설계된 링크보다 40% 이상 경량화 시킬 수 있었으며 이를 통해 텐션링크 개발의 안전한 경량화 설계조건을 제시할 수 있었다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.203-211
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• 2019

In this study, the weight of type IV pressure vessel is optimized through the burst pressure condition using the finite element analysis (FEA) based on the genetic algorithm (GA). The optimization design variables include the thickness of composite layers and the winding angles. The optimized design variables are validated using the numerical simulations for the pressure vessel. Consequently, the weight is decreased by about 6.5% as compared to the previously reported results for Type III pressure vessel. Additionally, a method which reduces the entire optimization time is proposed. In the original method, the population size is constant across all generations. However, the proposed method could reduce the workload through the reduction of the population size by half for every 25 generations. Thus, the proposed method is observed to increase the weight by about 0.1%, however, the working time for the optimization could be decreased by about 46.5%.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.773-774
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 감마선원 영상화를 위한 감마선 탐지장치에 적용할 차폐체의 경량, 소형화 연구를 수행하였다. 선행 연구를 통해 상용 감마선 영상화 장치의 차폐체와 유사한 차폐효율 및 성능을 나타내는 납 기반의 차폐체를 구현하였으며, 본 논문에서는 납 기반의 차폐체보다 경량화, 소형화를 위해 텅스텐기반의 차폐체를 설계하였다. 차폐체 설계를 위해서 MCNP 전산모사를 수행하였으며, 그 결과 17%의 경량화 및 51%의 체적을 줄이는 결과를 얻었다.