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Leakage Analysis of the Exhaust Gas for the Engine Exhaust Manifold  

Choi, Bok-Lok (School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Kangnung National University)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.15, no.3, 2007 , pp. 160-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
Exhaust manifold is generally subjected to thermal cycle loadings ; at hot condition, large compressive plastic deformations are generated, and at cold condition, tensile stresses are remained in highly deformed critical zones. These phenomena originate from that thermal expansions of the runners are restricted by inlet flange connected to the cylinder head, because the former is less stiff than the latter and, the temperature of the inlet flange is lower than that of the runners. Therefore, due to the repetitions of thermal deformation, leakage problems could be occur between inlet flange and cylinder head. In this study, we obtained pressure distributions along gasket bead lines from the finite element analysis and compared to the test results. It shows a good agreement between numerical and experimental results.
Keywords
Exhaust manifold; Inlet flange; Cylinder head; Leakage; Gasket bead line; Thermal deformation;
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