• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.293-304
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• 2014

고무 공기 스프링(rubber air spring)은 자동차, 철도차량 등 수송기기의 서스펜션 장치로 사용되고 있다. 고무 공기 스프링은 고무 에어백의 압축과 팽창을 통한 탄성효과로 스프링의 역할을 한다. 고무 공기 스프링의 주요 구성요소 중 하나가 고무 슬리브(rubber sleeve)이다. 고무 슬리브는 주요 구성성분인 클로로프렌 고무와 나일론 6 코드 간의 접착이 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 첨가제의 영향을 고려한 고무 슬리브의 최적 배합조성과 조건을 찾기 위해 다양한 물성시험을 하였다. 또한, 보강섬유의 최적 배향을 선정하기 위해 유한요소해석법을 이용한 수치해석을 수행하였다. 고무 공기 스프링을 제조하여 실제 차량에 장착하여 기초물성과 피로수명 및 기밀성을 시험하였다.

• Composites Research
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2003

레이저 융착된 광섬유의 절단 부위에 대한 보호를 위한 관심이 크게 높아지고 있다 일반적으로 절단된 광섬유의 융착부분은 다른 부위에 비해 상대적으로 매우 취약하며 이러한 이유로 광섬유를 광 통신망에 사용할 때 동일 부분에서의 손실이 추가적으로 일어날 수 있다 일반적으로 광섬유 융착 부위는 일반 광섬유의 파괴 강도에 비해 약 1/10인 0.4～l kg로 감소된다. 이러한 이유로 인해 광 융착 부위의 보강이 절실히 요구되고 있다. 그러나, 이러한 구조물의 대부분이 철심 형태의 구조물을 삽입한 슬리브로 보강됨에 따라 굽힘에 대해 효과적으로 대응하지 못할 뿐 아니라 일단 구조물이 굽혀졌을 경우에는 지속적인 광 손실을 발생시키는 요인이 된다. 이러한 문제점을 보완하기 위하여 복합재료로 제작된 코일형 스프링 구조물 형태의 슬리브가 제안되었다. 이러한 슬리브는 기존의 슬리브의 취약점이었던 직하중에 대해 서로 효과적으로 반응할 뿐 아니라 굽힘 및 인장/압축 하중에도 효과가 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2009

In diesel engines, it is inevitable that the torsional vibration is produced by the fluctuation of engine torque. Therefore, it is necessary to establish preventive measures to diminish the torsional vibration. The sleeve spring type damper is one of the preventive measures for reducing the torsional vibration. In this study, a closed form equation to predict spring constant of the sleeve spring and torsional characteristic of the torsional vibration damper was proposed to calculate stiffness of the damper and verified their availability through the finite element analysis. The theoretical values have a good agreement with the results obtained by the finite element analysis. The results obtained from the equation derived enable the designers in actual fields to be more efficient.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.1471-1481
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• 2009

In diesel engines, it is inevitable that the torsional vibration is produced by the fluctuation of engine torque. Therefore, it is necessary to establish preventive measures to diminish the torsional vibration. The sleeve spring type damper is one of the preventive measures for reducing the torsional vibration. In this study, the closed form equations to predict the spring constant of a sleeve spring and the torsional characteristics of the torsional vibration damper are proposed to calculate stiffness of the damper and verified their availability through the finite element analysis and experiments. And the stability of the sleeve spring torsional vibration damper is verified by analyzing the inner star and outer star, which are the core parts of the damper, and 2-roll bending process is proposed to manufacture sleeve spring. The program to calculate the initial radius including spring-back effect is developed, and the FEA method to analyze elasto-plastic problem was verified through analysis of 90$^{\circ}$bending process. The results of the analysis are in good agreements with those of the experiments. The newly proposed method can be used as an advanced technique that remarkably curtails cost of production and replaces the conventional forming.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2009

In diesel engines, it is inevitable that the torsional vibration is produced by the fluctuation of engine torque. Therefore, it is necessary to establish preventive measures to diminish the torsional vibration. The sleeve spring type damper is one of the preventive measures for reducing the torsional vibration. In this study, 2-roll bending process was proposed to manufacture sleeve spring; The program to calculate the initial radius including springback effect was developed and the FEA method to analyze elasto-plastic problem was verified through analysis of 90 degree bending process. The elasto-plastic analysis of 2-roll bending process was carried out by the FEA method verified to set a new criterion, and the new process design parameter(contact angle) in the 2-roll bending process was proposed.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.357-362
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• 2011

Air springs are prevalently used as suspension in train. However, air springs are seldom used in automobiles where they improve stability and comfort by enhancing the impact-relief, breaking, and cornering performance. Thus, this study proposed a new method to analyze air springs and obtained some reliable design parameter which can be utilized in vehicle suspension system in contrast to conventional method. Among air spring types of suspension, this study focused on sleeve type of air spring as an analysis model since it has potential for ameliorating the quality of automobiles, specifically in its stability and comfort improvement by decreasing the shock through rubber sleeve. As a methodology, this study used MARC, as a nonlinear finite element analysis program, in order to find out maximum stress and maximum strain depending on reinforcement cord's angle variation in sleeves. The properties were found through uniaxial tension and pure shear test, and they were developed using Ogden Foam which is an input program of MARC. As a result, the internal maximum stresses and deformation according to the changes of cord angle are obtained. Also, the results showed that the Young's modulus becomes smaller, then maximum stresses decrease. It is believed that these studies can be contributed in automobile suspension system.