• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2013

Parts and structures such as piston rod and knuckle joint for the use of hydraulic cylinder are often welded together in some fashion, usually due to cost and process effectiveness. Welding strongly affects the material by the process of heating and subsequent cooling as well as by the fusion process with additional filler material. Furthermore, a weld is usually far from being perfect, containing inclusions, pores, cavities, undercuts etc. As a consequence, fatigue failures appear in welded structures mostly at the welds rather than in the base metal, even if the latter contains notches. For this reason, fatigue analyses are of high practical interest for all welded structures under the action of cyclic loads. This paper describes the influence of welding parameters, material combinations and heat treatment on the fatigue behavior of welded cylinder rod. In addition, statistical characterization of stress-life response in weldment of hydraulic cylinder rod are presented.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.310-317
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• 2006

Currently most practical vibration and structural problems in automotive suspensions require the use of the finite element method to obtain their structural responses. When the finite element model has a very large number of degrees of freedom the harmonic and dynamic analyses are computationally too expensive to repeat within a feasible design process time. To alleviate the computational difficulty, this paper presents a moment-matching based model order reduction (MOR) which reduces the number of degrees of freedom of the original finite element model and speeds up the necessary simulations with the reduced-size models. The moment-matching model reduction via the Arnoldi process is performed directly to ANSYS finite element models by software mor4ansys. Among automotive suspension components, a knuckle is taken as an example to demonstrate the advantages of this approach for vibration simulation. The frequency and transient dynamic responses by the MOR are compared with those by the mode superposition method.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1994년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.648-652
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• 1994

Lower Arm은 전차축식 현가장치에 사용되는 자동차부품으로 바퀴에서 발생되는 제동력이나 코너링력 등을 지탱하는 장치이다. V형의 상하 2개의 서스펜션암의 축에 의해 츠레임에 장착되고 좌우에 있는 Lower Arm끝부분은 볼조인트 및 부싱에 의해 스티어링 너클에 부착된다. 압입부품들은 자동차의 주행중 발생하는 외력에 의하여 이탈될 수 있는 위험성에 항상 노출되어 있어 자동차에 사용하는 압입부품들의 이탈력은 매우 중요하지만 한번 이탈시킨 Lower Arm은 이탈력이 현저히 저하되기 때문에 이탈력 측정에 의한 품질관리는 전량검사가 불가능하게 된다. 본 연구는 Lower Arm에 압입되는 볼조인트의 압입력을 압입거리에 따라 측정하여 Lower Arm에 뚫어진 볼조인트 압입구멍의 크기와 압입력의 상관관계를 실험적으로 구할수 있는 크기와 압입력의 상관관계를 실험적으로 구할 수 있는 모니터링 시스템을 개발하고자 한다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.112-121
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• 1995

Various CAE technologies are used in automobile industries for the purpose of design and analysis. In this paper, a fatigue life evaluation system FLEVA based on the local strain approach is developed and the system is applied for the fatigue strength design of the suspension knuckle, an automobile component. Various steps such as material test, finite element analysis and cumulative fatigue damage analysis of the suspension knuckle were taken. The usefulness of the approach was verified by the fatigue test on the suspension knuckle.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2008

The automotive industry faces many competitive challenges including weight and cost reduction to meet need for higher fuel economy. It is a trend that a lot of parts have been currently changed to an aluminum alloy from steel materials. It is required more precise analysis for practical load because of complexities and varieties of vehicle structure. In this study, the shape optimization using a FEA is performed to determine the design of the knuckle. The size optimization is carried out to find thickness while the stiffness constraints are satisfied. A commercial optimization software MSC/NASTRAN is utilized for the structural analysis and the optimization processes.

• 안전기술
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• 제195호
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• pp.26-28
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• 2014

충남 당진시 송악읍에 위치하고 있는 (주)시그너스정공 당진공장. 국내 최고의 너클(KNUCKLE) 전문 가공업체인 이곳은 1994년 창사 이래 20년 동안 지속적인 성장을 거듭해오고 있다. 최근에는 소재부터 가공까지 수직계열화를 통한 사업 확장을 도모하고 있다. 이런 우수한 역량에 힘입어 기아자동차의 협력사로 지정되어 있을 정도다. 이처럼 꾸준한 발전 속에 많은 고객들의 사랑을 받을 수 있었던 비결은 무엇일까. 바로 '안전이 뒷받침 될 때만이 최고의 제품이 나온다'는 이곳의 경영 생산방침에서 그 답을 찾을 수 있다. 그동안 시그너스정공은 생산, 품질관리 그리고 물류에 이르기까지 안전에 있어서만은 작은 실수도 용납하지 않는 장인정신을 지켜왔다. 그 결과 지금은 국내 최고의 기술력과 전문성을 인정받고 있다. 안전을 최우선 가치로 삼아 비약적인 성장을 이루고 있는 이곳을 찾아가 봤다.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.243-246
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• 2008

The press machine is actuated by the rotating motion of crank shaft and the reciprocating motion of slide. In recent years, unbalance moments and forces to the main frame attract many researches, as press technology becomes more miniaturized, precise, and rapid. In order to control vibrations caused by the rapid motions of the crank shaft and slide, this paper studies a resolution reducing the unbalance at the high speed knuckle press.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.46-50
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 수압반복시험 장비를 이용하여 70 MPa용 Type 3의 수소복합용기에 대한 거동과 용기내부에 압력이 가해졌을 때 용기 거동을 유한요소법으로 해석하였다. 그 결과, 안전성과 경량성으로 주목받고 있는 Type3 수소용기는 실린더부에서 파열이 먼저 시작되었으며, 유한요소해석 결과에서도 동일한 양상을 확인하였다. 시험결과로 용기내부에 압력이 가해짐에 따라 실린더 몸통부가 부풀어 올라 돔너클과 실린더 몸통부가 가장 취약함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2013

In this study, suspension geometry is controlled to improve vehicle handling performance. The toe and camber of the rear suspension is controlled independently by using a double knuckle structure designed to enhance the vehicle cornering stability. Camber and toe changes in the rear wheel during high speed turning maneuver are important factors that influence the vehicle stability. Toe in the rear outer wheel plays a dominant role in cornering. A control algorithm for the camber and the toe angle input is developed to carry out the control simulation of the vehicle such as single lane change, the steady state cornering, the double lane change and the step steering simulation. Effects of the camber and toe angle control are analyzed from the computer simulations. A double lane change simulation revealed that the suspension mechanism with variable camber angle and variable toe angle decreases the peak body slip angle and peak yaw rate, 50% and 10%, respectively.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.332-340
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• 2023

The present study established hull form optimization for small catamaran based on variations of knuckle lines. Four knuckle lines below the free surface were employed as design variables. Knuckle lines were independently transformed within remaining the main dimensions of the existing hull. For the hull form optimization, the SHERPA algorithm of HEEDS was utilized. Computational fluid dynamics was employed to estimate the resistance performance. The optimal hull showed the improvement of resistance performance of 9.3% than that of existing hull. The improvement of wave and pressure distributions for optimal hull was confirmed. Throughout the present study, it is expected that established optimization method can be applied for various small vessels such as fishing and leisure boats.