대한기계학회:학술대회논문집 (Proceedings of the KSME Conference)
- 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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- Pages.571-575
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- 2008
하이드로포밍을 이용한 엔진크래들 최적설계
The Optimization Design of Engine Cradle using Hydroforming
- 발행 : 2008.11.05
초록
An engine cradle is a quite important structural assembly for supporting the engine, suspension and steering parts of vehicle and absorbing the vibrations during the drive and the shock in the car crash. Recently, the engine cradle having structural stiffness enough to support the surrounding parts and absorbing the shock of collision has been widely used. The hydroforming technology may cause many advantages to automotive applications in terms of better structural integrity of parts, reduction of production cost, weight reduction, material saving, reduction in the number of joining processes and improvement of reliability. We focus on increasing the durability and the dynamic performance of engine cradle. For realizing this objective, several optimization design techniques such as shape, size, and topology optimization are performed. This optimization scheme based on the sensitivity can provide distinguished performance improvement in using hydroforming.