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Optimal Location Issue on both Supporting Bearing and Unbalance Mass of the Balance Shaft Module in a Inline 4-Cylinder Engine  

Lee, Dong-Won (Korea Automotive Technology Institute)
Kim, Chan-Jung (Korea Automotive Technology Institute)
Bae, Chul-Yong (Korea Automotive Technology Institute)
Lee, Bong-Hyun (Korea Automotive Technology Institute)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.18, no.4, 2010 , pp. 1-7 More about this Journal
Abstract
Large quantity of bending deformation as well as irregular rotating torque fluctuation are the main struggles of the balance shaft module during a high speed rotation. Since two issues are much sensitive to the location of both supporting bearing and unbalance mass at a balance shaft, it is recommended to construct a design strategy on balance shaft at the early stage so as to save developing time and effort before approaches to the detailed design process. In this paper, an optimal design formulation is proposed to minimize the elastic strain energy due to bending as well as the kinematic energy of polar moment of inertia in rotation. Case studies of optimal design are conducted for different mass ratio as well as linear combination of objective function and its consequence reveals that global optimum of balance shaft model is existed over possible design conditions. Simulation shows that best locations of both supporting bearing and unbalance are globally 20% and 80%, respectively, over total length of a balance shaft.
Keywords
Optimal design formulation; Objective function; Balance shaft;
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