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Shape Optimization of the Cross Section for a Non-circular Spring Wire of Valve Springs for an Automotive Engine (자동차 엔진 밸브 스프링에 사용되는 비원형 스프링 선의 단면 형상 최적화)

  • Kim, Do-Joong;Kim, Young-Kyung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.117-124
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    • 2011
  • Valve springs with non-circular cross-section are widely used in automotive engines. Because of the reduced height, the oval cross-section provides some merits in its install height and stress distribution. This paper introduces a new method to generate optimal shape of the non-circular cross-section. For given width and height, arbitrary shape of the cross-section are described using the Hermite spline curves. Cross-section area and maximum stress level are chosen as performance indices, and nonlinear optimization problems are formulated with inequality constraints. Compared to a production spring wire, cross-section area can be reduced about 2.4 [%] without increasing maximum stress level. In addition, the other approach gives an optimum cross-section which reduces maximum stress level of 2.0 [%] without increasing cross-section area.

A Study on the Comparison of Performances between Section Property Method and Section Shape Method for the Section Design of Vehicle Structure (차체단면설계를 위한 단면계수법 및 단면형상법의 성능비교에 관한 연구)

  • 서명원;이정환
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.135-147
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    • 2000
  • Section design of vehicle structure has been developed by two methods. One is the section property method which uses section property as a design variable. This method shows the tendency of an optimum section approximately. The other method is the section shape method which utilizes geometric parameter of section as a design variable. Practical solutions are obtained by this method. However, it is very expensive for large-scale problems due to the large number of geometric parameters. These two methods are compared through several sample problems. The finite element method is used for the structural and sensitivity analyses. The results are analyzed based on the number of function evaluations, the quality of cost function, the complexity of programing, and etc. The applications of both methods are also discussed.

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A Study on Crushing Characteristic of Hatted Section Tube (모자형 단면부재의 압괴특성 연구)

  • 김천욱;한병기;김병삼
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.212-219
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    • 2002
  • In the frontal collision of cars, front parts of cars such as engine rail and side members that are composed of hatted section tubes should absorb most of the collision energy far the passenger compartment not to be deformed. For these reasons the study on the collapse characteristics, maximum crushing load and energy absorption capacity of hatted section tubes are needed. In this study, top hatted section tubes and double hatted section tubes are investigated. The maximum crushing load of hatted section tubes is induced from plastic buckling stress of plates by considering that the hatted section tubes are composed of plates with each different boundary conditions and that its material has a strain hardening effect. On this concept maximum crushing load equations of hatted section tubes are derived and verified by experiments. from the results of experiment, the differences of collapse characteristics between top hatted section tube and double hatted section tube are analysed. And mean crushing loads of hatted section tubes from experiments are compared with other theory.

A Study on the Development of PC-based Section Property Calculation Software for Design Engineers (설계 및 해석지원을 위한 PC용 단면계수계산 소프트웨어 개발에 관한 연구)

  • 장성국;강신한
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.20 no.44
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    • pp.497-506
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    • 1997
  • In this paper described is the software developed to calculate the physical properties of arbitrary section shape. The software consists of arbitrary section display module(ASDM) and section property calculation module(SPCM). ASDM defines and displays the shape of arbitrary section and SPCM calculates its properties such as area, centroid, moment of inertia, torsional constant, etc.. In many cases, calculation of section properties is not easy because user has to define the vertex coordinates which are difficult to do so in the case of arbitrary section. In the developed software, however, since user is asked to define only points of central lines and thickness of arbitrary section, the calculattion task of arbitrary section is very effective.

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