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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2013.37.8.1059

Design of Automotive Fuel Tank for Preventing Liquid Carry Over Using Taguchi Method and Approximate Optimization  

Park, Gyu-Byung (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Lee, Yongbin (PIDOTECH Inc.)
Cho, In-Geun (Graduate school of Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Choi, Dong-Hoon (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.37, no.8, 2013 , pp. 1059-1067 More about this Journal
Abstract
Automotive fuel tank is generally divided into two parts: main frame and assembly parts. While the car is running, valves are used to prevent liquid carry over and to discharge evaporated gas from the fuel tank. However, current fuel tank designs focus on the gas ventilation or secured location. In this study, the location of the parts used to prevent liquid carry over within the fuel tank is evaluated during an optimal design process. To develop this design process, an approximate optimization is applied. Through the optimal design process, the optimal valve location in fuel tank is determined and the approximate optimization is validated by the Taguchi method. Finally, the optimized valve location is used to reduce the development cost and time and to contribute toward improved automobile quality owing to enhanced reliability.
Keywords
Automotive Fuel Tank; Taguchi Method; Approximate Optimization; Design of Experiments; Kriging;
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