• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.78-84
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• 2017

Consistent efforts have been made to reduce the weight of automotive parts by using lightweight materials. This has resulted in the replacement of conventional steels in car body structures with high-strength steels, and the current usage rate has reached 50%. This study examines the structural stiffness and energy absorption capability of bumper beams made of high-strength steels. New types of bumper beam cross sections are proposed.The structural stiffness and maximum bending force were computed via finite element analysis as about 25tons and 7.5tons/mm, and there were no significant differences among the proposedcross sections. Dynamic analysis was also carried out to investigate the energy absorption capabilities of the bumper beams, and the effects of materials and thickness reduction were analyzed. High-strength steel can be used to achieve weight reduction with comparable structural performance to conventional bumper beams.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.134-139
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• 2003

The car crash accidents in low speed occurs most frequently. Damage on a conventional bumper after the car accident causes the bumper to get fixed most of time. This study shows how a gas tube bumper reduces a damageability and increase repairability after the car accidents. The 15 km/h 40% offset front and rear crash test recommended by RCAR (Research council for automobile repairs) standard was performed and evaluated damages on the gas tube bumper by the pendulum impact tester. In this study, the gas tube bumper reduces damageability and increases repairability after car crash accidents. In addition, car frame design to apply the gas tube bumper may consider to be changed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.182-189
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• 2003

We have found that the damage of the front part for a vehicle and that of the rear part for a vehicle are the majority of frequency experienced by the traffic accidents. In conventional bumper system was designed by safety standard regulation at low speed crash. For example there are 2.5 mile and 5 mile bumper. The conventional bumper system was the crash from max 5.5 mile to 3 mile low speed occurs most frequently and results in the highest rate of repairing cost in statistically. On this study, in order to check the damageability and repairability of gas tube bumper system RCAR 15 km/h 40 % offset frontal crash test was adopted in low speed and we have a gas tube bumper parts test and vehicle test with gas tube bumper, we can find gas tube bumper system definitely can improve the damageability and repairability of the vehicles and contribute to down the repairing cost.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.23-30
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• 2019

An color sorting technique was introduced to recycle End-of-life automobile shredded bumpers. The color sorting is a innovate method of separating the differences in the color of materials which are difficult to separate in gravity and size classification by using a camera and an image process technique. Experiments were planned and optimal conditions were derived by applying BBD (Box-Behnken Design) in the reaction surface method. The effects of color sensitivity, feed rate and sample size were analyzed, and a second-order reaction model was obtained based on the analysis of regression and statistical methods and $R^2$ and p-value were 99.56% and < 0.001. Optimum recovery was 94.1% under the conditions of color sensitivity, feed rate and particle size of 32%, 200 kg/h, and 33 mm respectively. The recovery of actual experiment was 93.8%. The experimental data agreed well with the predicted value and confirmed that the model was appropriate.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.670-678
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• 2018

In coastal waters where the traffic volume of the ship is high, there is a high possibility of a collision accident because complicated encounter situations frequently occurs between ships. To reduce the collision accidents at sea, a quantitative collision risk assessment is required in addition to the navigator's compliance with COLREG. In this study, a new collision risk assessment system was developed to evaluate the collision risk on ship's planned sailing routes. The appropriate collision risk assessment method was proposed on the basis of reviewing existing collision risk assessment models. The system was developed using MATLAB and it consists of three parts: Map, Bumper and Assessment. The developed system was applied to the test sea area with simple computational conditions for testing and to actual sea areas with real computational conditions for validation. The results show the length of own ship, ship's sailing time and sailing routes affect collision risks. The developed system is expected to be helpful for navigators to choose the optimum safe route before sailing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.377-384
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• 2004

지구환경 문제가 대두되면서 자동차 경량화를 위한 재료의 고강도화는 필수적인데, 재료의 고강도화는 성형성의 감소를 야기한다. 이러한 문제점은 가공방법으로 해결할 수 있는데, 그 대표적인 것이 프레스 경화(Press Hardening)공정이다. 프레스 경화 공법이란 성형성이 좋은 고온$(900^{\circ}C)$에서 성형하면서 성형 중 프레스에서 고강도를 부설하는 공법이다. 프레스 경화 공정은 스웨덴의 SSAB자회사인 프라냐에서 1973년에 개발된 공법으로 초기에는 높은 경도가 필요한 산업용 설비 (톱 등)에 적용되다가 1990년대부터 Bumper와 Door Impact Beam등의 자동차 부품으로 개발을 하여 적용되기 시작하였으며, 현재 그 적용 영역을 보다 넓혀나가고 있는 상태이다. 본 발표에서는 프레스 경화 공정의 대표 부품인 범퍼 임펙트을 개발하기 위해 관련한 성능해석을 수행하였다. 수행한 결과에 의하면 기존 소재 대비하여 $30\%$이상 경량화가 가능함을 알수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.513-518
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• 2018

Nitrogen charging trailer applied to KUH-1 is a device to charge Nitrogen in main front wheel buffer, tail bumper buffer, brake accumulator and tire of aircraft. As the name suggests, it is a device that has mobility along with nitrogen charging. Originally supplied by Tronair in the United States, it was imported from Korea, and the locally developed product not only satisfies the performance of the existing product, but also designed to be easier than the product introduced in the operation. It was selected as the joint investment project of the 15th civilian government building, and development needs analysis and test evaluation were carried out under the support of development and management of Korea Aerospace Industries and Defense Agency for Technology and Quality.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.43-51
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• 2019

The aircraft vertical acceleration from the excitation of the road surface in the taxing mode is a main factor with a negative effect on the boarding quality of pilots and passengers. In this paper, we propose an appropriate control method to improve the boarding quality of the MR damper landing gear. The proposed control method is Skyhook Control Type 2, which feeds the aircraft vertical acceleration back in addition to the aircraft vertical velocity. Since Skyhook Control Type 2 factors the velocity and acceleration of the upper mass, it can be expected to exceed the control performance of the existing Skyhook Control that factors only the upper mass velocity. For the simulation, the bumper type road surface was selected as a ground surface, and the landing gear model constructed with RecurDyn and the controller designed with Simulink were co-simulated. The control effect of Skyhook Control Type 2 was verified by comparing and analyzing the RMS and maximum value of the upper mass acceleration according to the taxing speed and control method.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.313-325
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• 2001

Tubular bridge rail was developed to restrain and redirect a 14ton van-type truck. The developed bridge rail permits better visibility than concrete safety-shape bridge rail, and it has better structural adequacy than the existing steel and aluminum bridge rails in Korea. The new bridge rail consists of a tubular thrie beam(TTB) rail and a steel guard rail, which are connected to composite posts. The TTB shape provides both better containment of diverse bumper heights and more tight fit between the ends of bridge rail and roadside guardrails than the existing bridge rail sections currently used in Korea. Making composite post by filling concrete inside the steel pipe of the same size as are used for the roadside guardrail post was found to be more efficient in increasing the stiffness and ultimate strength than simply increasing the size of the steel pipe. The system was crash-tested for the impact condition of 14ton-80km/h-$15^{\circ}$, and it satisfied all evaluation criteria set forth in NCHRP Report 350 for a Test Level 4 safety appurtenance. Acceptable performances were obtained in computer simulations for the impact condition of S2.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.358-363
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• 2010

본 논문은 가정용 청소로봇이 대중화가 이루어지면서 많은 종류의 청소로봇들이 개발되고 있지만 대부분의 청소로봇들이 외부 환경과 상호적으로 대응하지 못하고 무작위 경로 생성에 가까운 알고리즘들을 적용하고 있는 점에서 착안하였다. 목표로 하고 있는 경로 탐색 기법은 대부분의 가정용 청소로봇이 장착하고 있는 범퍼 센서를 사용하여 논리적인 가상의 지도를 생성하고 이 정보를 활용하여 청소로봇의 위치를 파악하고 최적의 청소 경로를 생성하는 방법이다. 사람이 진공청소기를 사용하여 청소를 하듯이 청소할 공간을 파악하고 일련의 규칙대로 청소하는 무의식의 프로세스를 청소로봇이 최대한 유사하게 작동하기 위해서는 벽뿐만 아니라 소파나 테이블과 같은 로봇의 움직임을 방해하는 각종 요소들을 모두 고려해야 한다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 Occupancy Grid Map을 생성하여 로봇이 장애물의 위치를 파악하고 청소 경로를 탐색할 수 있도록 한다. 그리고 이러한 경로 탐색 기법을 적용하기 위해서 Monte-Carlo Localization 알고리즘을 사용하며 생성된 Occupancy Grid Map을 통하여 로봇이 자체적으로 위치를 파악할 수 있도록 한다. 청소로봇이 자체의 위치를 파악하게 되면 로봇의 크기와 비교하여 움직일 수 있는 공간과 움직이지 못하는 공간을 구별하여 이동 가능한 영역과는 별개로 청소를 위한 경로 탐색을 수행할 수 있다. 청소를 목적으로 하는 경로 탐색은 청소 영역을 최대화하면서 최적의 경로를 탐색하고 Localization을 통해 해당 경로를 유지하면서 이동할 수 있게 된다. 이러한 경로 탐색 기법을 제시하면서 기존의 청소로봇들과의 알고리즘 차원에서의 비교 및 그 성능 평가는 향후 연구에서 해결하도록 한다.