• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.68-78
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• 2003

Recently, low speed vehicle (LSV) is beginning to appear for various usages. The body of the LSV is usually made of the aluminum space frame (ASF) type rather than the monocoque or unitary construction type. A pa.1 of the reason is that it is easier to reduce mass efficiently while the required stiffness and strength are maintained. A design flow for LSV is proposed. Design specifications for structural performances of LSV do not exist yet. Therefore, they are defined through a comparative study with general passenger automobiles. An optimization problem is formulated by the defined specifications. At first, one pillar which has an important role in structural performances is selected and the reinforcements of the pillar are determined from topology optimization to maximize the stiffness. At second, the thicknesses of cross sections are determined to minimize the mass of the body while design specifications are satisfied. The optimum solution is compared with an existing design. The optimization process has been performed using a commercial optimization software system, GENESIS 7.0.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2017

최근 자동차 업계는 연비향상 및 안전성 강화를 위해 경량 신소재를 적용하여 부품의 경량화를 추구하고 있다. 이를 위해 차체 부품 소재로서 고장력강판의 적용 비중이 50%를 넘고 있는 실정이다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 범퍼빔 부품의 소재로 고장력강판 적용을 위한 기초 연구로서 소재 및 두께 변경에 따른 범퍼빔의 구조강성과 에너지 흡수능력을 해석적 방법으로 비교 평가하였다. 우선 고장력강판을 범퍼빔에 적용하기 위해 기존의 범퍼빔 단면형상과는 다른 타입의 범퍼빔 단면형상을 설계하였으며, 굽힘해석을 통해 설계된 범퍼빔이 충분한 구조성능, 즉, 구조강성과 굽힘하중력을 가지고 있는지 조사하였다. 중앙접합부의 형상에 따라 굽힘에 대한 구조성능은 현저한 차이가 관찰되지는 않았으며, 25ton, 7.5ton/mm내외의 충분한 굽힘저항력과 강성을 가지고 있는 것으로 조사된다. 또한, 충돌해석을 통해 소재 및 두께를 변경하였을 경우의 효과를 비교평가하였다. 해석결과 고장력강판을 범퍼빔에 적용하기 위해서는 두께를 줄임으로써 기존소재에 버금가는 에너지흡수성능을 구현할 수 있으며, 동시에 뚜렷한 경량화를 이룰 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 본 기초연구를 토대로 고장력강판 범퍼빔의 구조성능 개선을 위한 향후 연구방향에 대해 제시하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.171-180
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• 2001

Collision accident reconstruction algorithm are developed based on the deformation shape and severity of a car body. At first, the body stiffness equation representing the force-deformation relationship is derived using finite element analysis for head on collision of two cars. The database of deformation shapes and energies is constructed for five different collision configurations; each configuration contains three velocity conditions. Deformation shapes are obtained using a curve fitting method and result in cubic polynomials. Deformation energies are calculated using a stiffness equation and deformation data. Three algorithms are developed to reconstruct collision configuration compared with constructed database. The developed algorithms show reasonably good performance to find collisions conditions for some test problems.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.191-197
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• 2016

RCAR low speed impact test estimates repair cost of the impacted vehicle. In this study, for a mid-size vehicle front body model, structural performance for RCAR low speed impact were analyzed with changing the bumper stay shape and size. First, for improving the impact load transfer mechanism to side member the stay rear section shape at connecting area with side member was modified and the stay outer was redesigned to be normal to the barrier. Next, the investigation on stay thickness effect was carried out and the performances of several models with different forming shape were compared. The final design showed 13mm decrease in the maximum barrier intrusion distance and greatly reduced side member deformation. Additional analyses explained the validity of the final design.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.252-257
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• 2006

Low vibration characteristics of a vehicle are mainly influenced by the local stiffness of the joint structure beam section. The method of substituting equivalent beam element to spring element for the joint is presented. Formation process of the equivalent beam joint modeling is described in terms of key section properties. To get required dynamic characteristics section properties of the equivalent beam element are set to design variables. The study shows that the equivalent beam joint model can be effectively used for low frequency vibration analysis of a vehicle.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.652-657
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• 2001

To analyze and predict crack initiation position and propagation directions on the spot welded area are very important for strength design of the automobile body structure. It is necessary to test by method considering random loads with variable amplitude for strength design of vehicle body structure, because driving cars are actually subjected to random loads with variable amplitude in the road. Although this condition, nearly all tests haute been performed under constant load conditions in the laboratory because it is impossible to replay like an actual conditions. In this study, using in-plane bending type specimens, the overload factor affecting on the fatigue strength, crack initiation and propagation directions of spot-welded specimens have been studied.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.548-553
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• 2008

Low Floor buses have no steps to get on or get off the main cabin to provide the old and the handicapped with easy access. The car body for the low floor bus was designed to consider Korean physical standard, passenger capacity (standee, seated, handicapped), arrangement of vehicle components, and bus law or regulations. It was designed as an one body, without any reinforcement armature, which has light-weight sandwich constructions with glass epoxy skins, aluminum honeycomb cores and inner-frames. In this paper, torsion rigidity of the designed car body was evaluated and compared with that of a car body with reinforcement armatures in the cabin. Finite element method verified that the designed car body without reinforcement armatures could satisfy requirements of torsion rigidity.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2014

Front side member of the front impacted vehicle plays a key role in minimizing the impacting load transferred to the compartment. To perform that required function, axial collapse should be dominant during side member crashing and, prior to designing side member, it is crucial to minimize bending moment occurred at the front end. In this study, for FE model of a SUV front body, front impact analyses were carried to find out bumper stay design which effectively develope axial collapse in the side member. As a previous work, the thickness of side member reinforcement were changed. Next, the inner thickness of bumper stay was increased. Also, the bead shape and location were modified. Final front body model showed much more axial collapsed mode and enhanced crash performance. In addition, a stay of octagon section was adopted and that model exhibited distinctive increase in impact energy absorption.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.2833-2842
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• 1996

This paper is to practice optimal rigidity design by the strain energy density estimation method for static buckling and sizing design sensitivity analysis for dynamic buckling of a nonlinear vehicle frame structure from those results. Using these sizing design sensitivity resutls, an optimization of a nonlinear vehicle frame structure with dynamic buckling constraint is carrried out with the graient projection method.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.9-16
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• 1998

The joint characteristics are necessary to be determined in the early stage of the vehicle body design. Researches on identification of joints in a vehicle body have been performed until the recent year. In this study, the joint characteristics of vehicle struct- ure were expressed as condensed forms from the full joint stiffness and mass matrix. The condensed joint stiffness and mass matrix were applied to typical T-type and Edge-type joints, and the usefulness was confirmed. In addition, those were applied to center pillar and full vehicle body to validate the practical application.