• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.683-690
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• 2012

In this work, the semi-active control of a large-sized bus suspension system with an MR damper was studied. An MR damper model that can aptly describe the hysteretic characteristics of an MR damper was adopted. Parameter values of the MR damper model were suitably modified by considering the maximum damping force of a passive damper used in the suspension system of a real large-sized bus. In addition, a fuzzy logic controller was developed for semi-active control of a suspension system with an MR damper. The vertical acceleration at the attachment point of the MR damper and the relative velocity between sprung and unsprung masses were used as input variables, while voltage was used as the output variable. Straight-ahead driving simulations were performed on a road with a random road profile and on a flat road with a bump. In straight-ahead driving simulations, the vertical acceleration and pitch angle were measured to compare the riding performance of a suspension system with a passive damper with that of a suspension with an MR damper. In addition, a single lane change simulation was performed. In the simulation, the lateral acceleration and roll angle were measured in order to compare the handling performance of a suspension system using a passive damper with that of a suspension system using an MR damper.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.181-191
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• 2003

Since the nonlinearity and uncertainties which inherently exist in vehicle system need to be considered in active suspension control law design, this paper proposes a new control strategy for active vehicle suspension systems by using a combined control scheme, i.e., respectively using a genetic algorithm (GA) based self-tuning PID controller and a fuzzy logic controller in two loops. In the control scheme, the PID controller is used to minimize vehicle body vertical acceleration, the fuzzy logic controller is to minimize pitch acceleration and meanwhile to attenuate vehicle body vertical acceleration further by tuning weighting factors. In order to improve the adaptability to the changes of plant parameters, based on the defined objectives, a genetic algorithm is introduced to tune the parameters of PID controller, the scaling factors, the gain values and the membership functions of fuzzy logic controller on-line. Taking a four degree-of-freedom nonlinear vehicle model as example, the proposed control scheme is applied and the simulations are carried out in different road disturbance input conditions. Simulation results show that the present control scheme is very effective in reducing peak values of vehicle body accelerations, especially within the most sensitive frequency range of human response, and in attenuating the excessive dynamic tire load to enhance road holding performance. The stability and adaptability are also showed even when the system is subject to severe road conditions, such as a pothole, an obstacle or a step input. Compared with conventional passive suspensions and the active vehicle suspension systems by using, e.g., linear fuzzy logic control, the combined PID and fuzzy control without parameters self-tuning, the new proposed control system with GA-based self-learning ability can improve vehicle ride comfort performance significantly and offer better system robustness.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.391-398
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• 2002

During handling unitized products, they are subjected to a variety of environmental hazards. Shock and vibration hazards are generally considered the most damaging of the environmental hazards on a product and it may encounter while passing through the distribution environment. A major cause of shock damage to products is drops during manual handling. The increasing use of unitization of pallets has been resulted in a reduction of the shock hazards. This has caused an increasing interest in research focused on vibration caused dam age. Damage to the product by the vibration most often occurs when a product or a product component has a natural frequency that falls within the range of the forcing frequencies of the particular mode of transportation being used. Transportation vibration is also a major cause of fruit and vegetable quality loss due to mechanical damage. This study was conducted to determine the vibration characteristics of the corrugated fiberboard bones for packages of pears, and to investigate the degree of vibration injury of the pears in the boxes during the simulated transportation environment. The vibration tests were performed on an electrohydraulic vibration exciter. The input acceleration to exciter was fixed at 0.25 G for a single container resonance test and 0.5 G for the vertical stacked container over the frequency range from 3 to 100 Hz. Function generator (HP-33120A) was connected by wire to the vibration exciter for controlling the input acceleration at a continuous logarithmic sweep rate of 1.0 octave per min. The peak frequency and acceleration on the single box test were 22.02 Hz, 1.5425 G respectively, and these values on the vertical stacked boxes were observed from the bottom box 19.02, 18.14, 16.62 and 15.40 Hz and 2.2987, 3.7654. 5.6087, and 7.9582 G, respectively. The pear in the bottom box had a slightly higher damage level than the fruit packed in the other stacked boxes. It is desirable that the package and transportation system has to be so designed that 15∼20 Hz frequency will not occur during the transportation environment.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2011

교량을 주행하는 열차의 주행안전성과 승차감의 확보를 위해 Eurocode, 신간선 기준, 호남고속철도 설계지침 등에서는 교량의 연직변위, 연직가속도, 면틀림 등의 항목으로 제한하고 있다. 그러나 이와 같은 제한 기준은 교량 설계자의 편의를 위한 간접적인 방법이다. 또한 이와 같은 기준은 일반적인 경간(Eurocode의 경우 120m 이하)에 대한 제한 기준으로서, 이 이상의 장경간 교량의 경우에는 교량/열차 상호작용 해석 등에 의한 면밀한 검토를 제안하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 교량/열차 상호작용 해석을 수행하여 열차에서의 응답을 통해 교량 상을 주행하는 열차의 주행안전성 및 승차감을 직접적으로 평가하고자 하였다. 즉, 중앙경간 300m의 현수교를 주행하는 KTX 열차에 대하여 열차 내부의 가속도와 윤중감소율을 구해 평가하는 방법을 취하였다. 또한, 이동 열차하중과 지진하중이 동시에 작용할 경우를 고려한 교량/열차/지진 상호작용해석을 수행하여 지진 시의 응답을 평가하였다.

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2021

Objective: The purpose of the study was to compare the acceleration and shock attenuation (SA) of the runners with/without low back pain (LBG vs. NLBG) while running at 2.5 m/s, 3.0 m/s, 3.5 m/s and 4.0 m/s. Method: 15 adults without low back pain (age: 23.13±3.46 years, body weight: 70.13±8.94 kg, height: 176.79±3.68 cm, NLBG) and 7 adults with low back pain (age: 27.14±5.81 years, body weight: 73.10±10.74 kg, height: 176.41±3.13 cm, LBG) participated in this study. LBG was recruited through the VAS pain rating scale. All participants ran on an instrumented treadmill (Bertec, USA). Results: The LBG shows statistically greater vertical acceleration at the distal tibia during running at 3.5 m/s and 4.0 m/s and greater shock attenuation from the distal tibia to the head during running at 3.5 m/s compared with the NLBG during running (p<.05). As the speed increased, there was a statistically significant increase in vertical/resultant acceleration and shock attenuation for both groups. Conclusion: The findings indicated that the runners with low back pain (LBG) experience greater impact and shock attenuation compared with non-low back pain group (NLBG) during fast running. However, it is still inconclusive whether high impact on the lower extremity during running is the main cause of low back pain in the population. Thus, it is suggested that the study on low back pain should observe the characteristics of impact during running with individuals' low back pain experience and clinical symptoms.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권3A호
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• pp.315-322
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 외부 후 긴장 보강 공법을 공용중인 무도상 철도 판형교 보강 방안으로서 적용 할 경우 긴장재 강성 및 도입 긴장력의 크기가 동적 거동 특성 변화에 미치는 영향을 실험 및 해석적으로 평가 하였다. 연구 결과 긴장재 강성에 의해 고유 진동수가 증가하나 긴장력 크기 증가에 의한 고유 진동수 감소에 의해 필요 긴장력 도입시 최종적으로 고유 진동수가 미소하게 감소하는 것으로 나타났으며, 외부 후 긴장력과 고유 진동수 변화 양상에 대한 명확한 관계 정립을 위한 추가적인 연구가 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 외부 후 긴장에 의해 동적 처짐, 동적 휨 응력 및 중력 방향 가속도가 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 외부 후 긴장에 의하여 중력 방향 가속도의 70% 수준인 횡 방향 가속도가 최대 20% 정도 증가하는 것으로 나타나 이에 대한 추가적인 연구가 필요한 것으로 판단된다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.453-462
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• 2018

Damages to buildings affected by a near-fault strong ground motion are largely attributed to the vertical component of the earthquake resulting in column failures, which could lead to disproportionate building catastrophic collapse in a progressive fashion. Recently, considerable interests are awakening to study effects of earthquake vertical components on structural responses. In this study, detailed modeling and time-history analyses of a 12-story code-conforming reinforced concrete moment frame building carrying the gravity loads, and exposed to once only the horizontal component of, and second time simultaneously the horizontal and vertical components of an ensemble of far-field and near-field earthquakes are conducted. Structural responses inclusive of tension, compression and its fluctuations in columns, the ratio of shear demand to capacity in columns and peak mid-span moment demand in beams are compared with and without the presence of the vertical component of earthquake records. The influences of the existence of earthquake vertical component in both exterior and interior spans are separately studied. Thereafter, the correlation between the increase of demands induced by the vertical component of the earthquake and the ratio of a set of earthquake record characteristic parameters is investigated. It is shown that uplift initiation and the magnitude of tensile forces developed in corner columns are relatively more critical. Presence of vertical component of earthquake leads to a drop in minimum compressive force and initiation of tension in columns. The magnitude of this reduction in the most critical case is recorded on average 84% under near-fault ground motions. Besides, the presence of earthquake vertical components increases the shear capacity required in columns, which is at most 31%. In the best case, a direct correlation of 95% between the increase of the maximum compressive force and the ratio of vertical to horizontal 'effective peak acceleration (EPA)' is observed.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.407-413
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• 2013

In the conventional towing tank, the ordinary towing carriage has a speed barrier which caused not only by the limitation of the length of towing tank but also the limitation of acceleration. Therefore the length of the towing tank should be decided carefully from the planning stage of the towing tank construction. Consequently the acceleration of the towing carriage should be taken less than 0.06g practically to avoid the slip of the wheel on rail. Due to the increasing demand of the high speed experiments on the development of special novel ship, the requirement of the high speed towing carriage is continuously increased recently. When the minimum measuring time of the towing experiment is prescribed as five seconds, the carriage should be accelerated with higher than 0.12 g to get the speed of 18 m/sec even in the towing tank having a length of 400m in length approximately. This means that the requirement of acceleration is bigger than twice of the ordinary practices of carriage acceleration. In such a condition the exerted total power of motor could not converted to traction force for the acceleration of the carriage without slip. To over come these difficulties a pair of horizontal traction wheels are reinforced to each of the ordinary vertical carrier wheel and appropriate suspension system has been devised for the towing tank of super high speed operation. It is believed that the design of novel suspension system adaptable for the high speed acceleration of towing carriage will play a important role as a reference for the remodeling of the towing tank for high speed experiment.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제40권9호
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• pp.783-790
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• 2016

IMU기반 자세결정에 있어 추정 정확도의 저하요인 중 주요한 한 가지는 운동체의 가속도이다. 이는 가속도가 크게 발생하는 경우 가속도계 신호는 더이상 수직축 참조벡터가 될 수 없기 때문이다. 이에 대한 대책으로 일부 자세추정 알고리즘에서는 가속도 보상 메카니즘이 적용되어 왔다. 가장 보편적이고 간단한 스위칭 방법부터 적응추정방식, 가속도 모델기반 방식 등이 제안되어 왔으나, 이들 보상 메카니즘에 대한 비교분석은 이루어 지지 않았다. 본 논문은 쿼터니언기반의 Pseudo 칼만필터를 바탕으로 하여 세 가지 가속도 보상 메커니즘의 성능을 비교분석하였다. 가속조건 실험 분석을 통해 다음을 확인할 수 있었다. (1) 가속구간에서의 추정정확도 저하를 방지하기 위해선 가속도 보상 메카니즘이 반드시 필요하다. (2) 단순 스위칭 방법도 상당한 효과를 보였으나, 보다 정교한 적응추정 방식과 가속도 모델방식이 동등수준으로 가장 정확한 결과를 보였다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2019

최근 대도시 핵심 교통수단인 도시철도의 대중화와 노후화에 따른 다양한 문제점이 발생되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이의 해결을 위해 스마트폰 내장형 가속도센서와 이를 활용한 애플리케이션을 사용하여 대구광역시 도시철도 1호선 전 구간에 대한 진동가속도를 측정하고 열차진동 특성을 평가하였다. 이를 위해 국내 철도차량 진동 측정 방법(KS R9160)을 따라 주행 시 발생하는 3축 방향 가속도를 기반으로, 32개 역사 구간 및 방향 별 진동가속도 특성을 분석하였다. 또한, 1997년 개통 당시 측정된 주요 구간 진동가속도와의 비교를 통해 열차 진동환경 변화에 따른 진동증폭 양상을 모니터링하였다. 진동가속도 분석 결과, 20년에 걸친 철도시설 환경의 노후화에 따른 수평 및 수직 방향 진동가속도 증가 특성을 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 추후 도시철도 승차감 평가와 주변 구조물에 대한 진동영향성 평가를 위한 주요한 자료로서의 가치가 있을 것으로 판단된다.