• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.237-243
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• 2012

The thickness optimization of the gearbox housing for 5MW wind turbine is carried out with the help of the efficient structure analysis model and the approximation model of objective function. Wind turbine gearbox is a complex structural system composed of a number of gear trains, shafts, bearing and gearbox housing, requiring a tremendous number of elements for the structural analysis and design. In this paper, an effective analysis and design model considering the tooth stiffness of helical gears is proposed. It enables to significantly reduce the total element number and the analysis time. Through the numerical optimization of housing thickness making use of the effective gearbox model and the approximate model of objective function, the total weight of the gearbox housing is minimized. It has been observed from the numerical experiment that the approximation model is reliable and the optimization result is acceptable and verified analysis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.922-923
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• 2015

풍력발전기는 2000년대 초반에 발전기 회전자 직경이 80m에 이르는 2MW급 풍력발전기들이 여러 회사에서 개발되면서 경제성 및 신뢰성도 향상되어 비약적인 발전을 이루게 되었다. 풍력발전시장의 신규발주와 설치장소가 한계점에 이르게 됨으로써 경제성이 뛰어난 대형 풍력발전기의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 이와 같이 풍력발전기의 대형화 추세는 대형화를 통해 에너지 효율의 증대뿐만 아니라 단위 용량 당 건설비 및 설비비 절감이 가능하기 때문에 풍력발전기 대형화를 위한 기술개발이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 하지만 현재 풍력발전기에 사용되는 기계적 기어박스는 윤활유 주입 및 보수 점검의 문제점이나 소음, 진동, 마찰에 의한 열 발생 등의 문제점들을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 기계적 기어박스를 마그네틱 기어를 이용하여 구성하고자 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 마그네틱 기어를 이용하여 10MW급 풍력발전기의 기어박스를 설계하고 그 가능성을 검토하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2016

This study is concerned with the numerical investigation of dynamic characteristics of 2.5MW-class wind turbine gearbox in which the misalignment improvement of plenary gear shafts by the flexible pins and the dynamic impact response are analyzed by the finite element method. The tooth contact between gears is modelled using the line element having the equivalent tooth stiffness and the contact ratio to accurately and effectively reflect the load transmission in the internal complex gear system. The equivalent tooth stiffness is calculated by utilizing the tooth deformation analysis and the impulse torque is applied to the input shaft for the dynamics response characteristic analysis. Through the numerical experiments, the equivalent tooth stiffness model was validated and the misalignment improvement of planetary gear shafts was confirmed from the comparison with the cases of fixed shafts at one and both ends.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.211-216
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• 2015

Large hydraulic excavator weighted 90 tons used the several pumps installed in parallel to use the hydraulic pump driving gearbox to improve fuel consumption by improving the energy efficiency of the hydraulic system. Gearbox connected to hydraulic pump supply the mechanical output to the high pressure and low pressure pump to be supplied by torque and rotation, which are the mechanical power, through a input shaft connected to large size engine of the excavator. So, gearbox connected to hydraulic pump is same as main artery in the human body and is required long life because it operates the hydraulic pump continuously during operating the engine. This study had used oil contamination analysis method to check the wear characteristics of the gearbox and frequency response characteristic analysis method to check the failure of the teeth failures of gearbox, while the test equipment adopted by the electrical feedback method to reduce the energy consumption was operating for the life assessment, in which the required power was 600 kW input power.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.665-671
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• 2015

The performance of fault diagnostics for a planetary gearbox depends on vibration modulation characteristics, which can vary with manufacturing & assembly tolerance, and load condition. In this paper, a fault diagnostics technique that considers vibration modulation characteristics is proposed for the effective fault detection of planetary gearboxes in wind turbines. For identifying the vibration modulation characteristics in practice, re-sampled vibration signals are processed with narrow band-pass filters. Thereafter, the optimal position of the vibration extraction window is identified for effective detection of faulty signals under the varying vibration modulation characteristics. The proposed diagnostics technique makes it possible to perform robust diagnostics of the planetary gearbox with regard to the changeable vibration modulation effect. For demonstrating the proposed fault diagnostics technique, a 2-kW WT testbed is designed with two DC motors and gearboxes. A faulty gear with partial tooth breakage is machined and assembled into the gearbox.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.54 no.7
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• pp.51-55
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• 2014

이 글에서는 풍력발전기 핵심부품인 유성기어박스의 구조 및 특징에 대해 알아본 후 고장 진단을 위해 어떤 기술들이 개발되었는지를 알아본다. 그리고 유성기어박스 고장 진단에 있어 예상되는 어려움과 그것을 해결하기 위한 고장 진단 기술 및 향후 연구 방향을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.8-14
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• 2017

Gearboxes for power transmission of a rotorcraft transfer power generated by an engine to the fan and the pusher for up, down and forward flight. The gearboxes are divided into the main gearbox and the sub-gearbox. The main goal of the gearbox design is to design the weight as light as possible within a range that satisfies all given requirements (transmission power, mounting space, etc.). In particular, the initial conceptual design is very important to reduce the weight of the gearbox, since the weight can vary greatly depending on the system configuration, even if it has the same function. In this study, various conceptual designs of the gearbox according to the installation position of the engine were presented. Also, the element parts such as gears and bearings in each concept design were designed by sizing for their life, and the estimated weights of the conceptual system configuration were compared.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.177-177
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• 2018

• 기계와재료
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• v.16 no.4 s.62
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• pp.100-109
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• 2004

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1347-1354
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• 1994

This paper deals with the experimental research, including measurement and analysis and field survey, on the causes of occurring noise defective gear boxes in hoist production plant in order to reduce the fraction of their occurrence. In this reserch following investigations are performed : measurement and gear-boxes, examination of each machining process of production, measurement and analysis of dimensional accuracy of each part, comparative vibration test with exchanging inaccurate parts. From these investigations, it is found that the machining accuracy of pinion gear tooth thickness is the most sensitive factor of noise problem. By maintaining the tooth thickness error within 0.05 mm tolerance in the gear cutting process, the fraction of noise defective gear-boxes are greatly reduced to less than 2%, where the usual rate of it has been 20-50%.