• Journal of the Korean Society of Mechanical Technology
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.57-64
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• 2011

Vibrations on the floor in a car are transmitted to the foot, hip, and back from the seat. Human body recognizes these vibrations, but the sensitivity for each vibration is different. To evaluate these vibrations, RMS(root mean square) of accelerations, VDV(vibration does value) are commonly used. The ride comfort evaluation is usually carried out by experiments of real cars which are expensive. The purpose of this paper is to briefly review the status of several ride vibration standards and criteria having relevance to construction machinery vehicles and to suggest recommendations for the effective use of such criteria in vehicle / component development.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.247-253
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• 2000

The evaluation of the ride quality had been performed by the subjective method before ISO2631(International Organization for Stadard 2631) and BS6841(British Standard 6841) was precented, but many research programs have been performed by the objective method after that. On this study, the ride quality was evaluated related with the objective method which considered the vibration which the human body feels on the driver's seat while driving on the road. In particular, we made the shock absorber nonlinear model and also selected the suitable shock absorber in the part of the vibration which the human body feels into the simulation. The shock absorber of suspension was dealt with 3 cases respectively with the front wheel and rear wheel. The vibration of the car driving on the road can be transferred to the wheel, the suspension, the vehicle body, the seat and the human body. The signal which was gained from the seat(hip) and the floor(foot) of the human body was changed to the vibration signal which the human body felt through using the frequency weighting function. And then the performance of the shock absorber was calculated through the statistic processing.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.171-180
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• 2000

This paper deals with the whole-body vibration and ride quality evaluation in the vertical direction. The responses of the floor, hip, back, and head in four subjects were measured for various seats when the floor was excited by random vibration with r.m.s of 1.2m/s2 in the vertical direction. In the transmissibility between the hip and floor, the fundamental mode is observed at 4.4 Hz. In the transmissibility between the head and floor, the fundamental mode at 4.4Hz and the second mode at 7.6Hz are observed. It is shown that the head motion is 41% larger than the hip motion and the response of female subject is larger than that of male subject. The response without backrest also was compared with that with backrest. From these human responses ride quality of five seats were evaluated by the ride value such as transfer ration having frequency weighting function is the statistical sense. It is observed that the seat having high damping property can reduce the most acceleration exposed to hip in the statistical sense for all ride valves, while the seat having different seat spring doesn't show statistical difference.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.30-30
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• 2004

• Railway Journal
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.37-46
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• 2013

• The tire
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• s.122
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• pp.32-38
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• 1986

타이어는 승용차를 비롯한 각종차량이나 항공기 등의 중요부품으로서 실로 광범위한 기능을 다하고 있는 것이다. 타이어는 무엇보다도 안전주행을 할 수 있어야 하고 자동차를 사용하는데 있어서의 경제성도 고려되어야 한다. 그리고 특히 승용차인 경우에는 차의 조종ㆍ안정성이나 진동ㆍ승차감ㆍ소음 등의 각종 요구에도 만족되어야 한다. 따라서 타이어가 이와같은 각종 요구조건을 만족시키고 있는가를 알기 위해서는 여러가지 시험을 통해서 평가하지 않으면 안된다. 또한 당연한 일이겠지만 이와같은 결과는 타이어 개발에 많이 활용되어야만 될 것이다. 타이어의 역할은 차량에 낀 다음부터 나타나게 되므로 타이어의 최종적인 평가는 실차시험에 따르는 것이 가장 좋으나, 시험의 능률, 경제성, 정밀도, 재현성 등의 여러가지 문제가 있기 때문에 실내시험으로 대체할 수 있는 제특성에 대해서는 가능한 한 여러가지의 실내시험기로 측정하는 방법을 택하고 있다. 그러나 자동차와의 조화로 나타나는 조종안정성이나 진동ㆍ소음: 승차감 등에 대해서는 실차시험으로 최종적인 평가ㆍ판정을 하는 수 밖에 없으므로 현재 세계의 많은 타이어 메이커들은 타이어 테스트코스를 설치하여 많은 시험차를 가지고 시험하고 있다. 따라서 여기서는 타이어의 시험이 어떠한 방법으로 이루어지고 있는지를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.477-480
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• 2011

장경간 케이블 교량은 과도한 변위 발생 등의 이유로 엄격한 안전성 및 사용성이 요구되는 철도교량에서는 제한적으로 적용되고 있다. 즉, 철도교량으로서 요구되는 주행안전성과 승차감을 만족하기 위해서는 면밀한 분석이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 교량/열차 상호작용 해석을 수행하여 열차에서의 응답을 통해 교량 상을 주행하는 열차의 주행안전성 및 승차감을 직접적으로 평가하고자 하였다. 즉, 중앙경간 300m의 현수교를 주행하는 KTX 열차에 대하여 열차 내부의 가속도와 윤중감소율을 구해 평가하는 방법을 취하였다. 또한, 이동 열차하중과 지진하중이 동시에 작용할 경우를 고려한 교량/열차/지진 상호작용해석을 수행하여 지진 시의 응답을 평가하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.114-121
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• 2003

In this paper, a new evaluation system was developed for ride comfort test and vibration level test on railway vehicles. These tests are carried out by applying different equipments and test procedures before now. But this developed system is capable of ride comfort test and vibration test by a single integrated system. Also, the evaluation algorithm for the ride comfort was compared and verified by simulation results with VAMPIRE software. With this developed system, the comfort in a passenger coach and the vibration in a freight car were verified by the results in field test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.597-603
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• 2009

In this study, Based on the optimization developed in Um et al. (2009), optimum design method of the alignment when building new lines and renewing existing ones is presented. The object function used for optimization is passenger comfort ($P_{CT}$) which was proposed in BSI (2006). Other aspects of track/vehicle interaction will be treated in boundary conditions. And track/vehicle interaction analysis is peformed using KTX-II model. From the analysis results, it was found that the optimum alignments are affected by the angle (I) between adjacent straight lines and $R-L_t$ combinations. Also the dynamic analysis confirms well the results from the simplified analysis. However, In the most cases, the $P_{CT}$ values in the dynamic analysis are higher than the simplified $P_{CT}$ values. If both methods are used when optimizing the alignment, it will be possible to design the alignments more rapidly and reliably.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.457-465
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• 2015

A method of evaluating the optimal alignment range while considering ride comfort when performing line renewal of curved tracks for speed-up is proposed in this study. The proposed method was applied to analyze the optimal renewal range for horizontal alignments with the smallest curve radii in the Kyung-Bu high-speed line; a parametric study on the effects of various initial design conditions on the permissible renewal range and optimal alignment range was also performed. From the analysis results, it was found that the permissible range is enhanced in proportion to the increase in the curve radius and the cant. It was also verified that a slight adjustment of the horizontal alignment enables speed-up even in the case of R7000/R8000, placed in the ballasted track section of the Kyung-Bu high-speed line.