• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.110-116
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• 2011

Water on a road surface can lower the coefficient of friction of vehicle tires and it involves lots of risks. One way to prevent water from staying is to cut many "rain grooves" into the edges of the pavement parallel. Such grooves, however, can exert unwanted side forces, particularly on passenger tires, which cause "Groove Wander" making the drivers uncomfortable. The "Groove Wander" is somewhat related to vehicle geometry, but is more strongly related to interaction between road grooves and tire tread's longitudinal grooves. This thesis tries to examine principles to estimate "Groove Wandering" effect focusing on the design of longitudinal groove. Additionally, it studied how to reduce pipe resonance longitudinal grooves form in the contact patch.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.50-59
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• 1995

겨울용 타이어인 '발포고무 타이어'의 트레드에 적용되는 발포고무의 물성과 마찰 및 마모특성을 조사하였다. 천연고무인 SMR-CV60과 합성고무인 BR-01(Cis-1, 4 Polybutadiene)을 70:30 비율로 혼합하였고 발포제로는 개질화된 azodicarbonamide (상품 명:UNICELL AD#2)을 변량 첨가하여 다양한 발포도의 발포고무를 준비하였다. 발포도의 증 가로 발포고무의 Young's modulus와 파괴에너지는 점진적으로 감소하였으나 Tan $\delta$ 는 일정한 값을 유지하였다. 매끄러운 유리표면위에서 높은 마찰계수를 보인 발포고무는 발포 도의 증가로 크게 감소하였고 거친 표면일수록 마찰계수는 상승하였다. 이같은 마찰계수의 증감경향이 교차되는 발포도는 30~40%이었다. $0^{\circ}C$에서의 마찰계수도 유리 표면에서감소하 고 거친표면에서 상승하는 경향을 보였으며 증감경향이 교차하는 발포도는 20%로 낮아졌 다. 마찰표면을 마그네시아 분말로 처리하면 전반적으로 마찰계수는 감소하였고 발포도의 크기에 관계없이 마찰표면이 거칠수록 큰 마찰계수를 나타내었다. 발포고무의 발포도가 커 지면 마모손실량도 비례하여 증가하였으며 발포도가 낮은 고무에서는 비교적 규칙적인 융기 간격이 보였으나 발포도가 30%이상으로 되면 불규칙적인 마모표면과 더불어 많은 마모 부 스러기가 관찰되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.361-364
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• 2011

In this paper, This work demonstrates a experimental evaluation for vehicle road noise NVH performance from the component-level NVH measurements of Tire. The power unit noise from tire emitted by cars has been reduced. It has been found that tire noise dominates noise produced by the power train when vehicles are driven at high constant speed. Therefore tire pattern noise is affected by pattern and vehicle and transmission loss. Tire noise mechanism is generated by several mechanisms. The sound of tire can propagate either through the air or through the structure of vehicle. Pattern noise is the result of pressure variations through the air to the interior side of vehicle. Especially, smooth asphalt, the periodicity of tread design, groove depth is important factor, which have an influence on the reduction of tire pattern noise.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.68-73
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• 2005

Tire manufactures have dealt with noise problem by varying the pitch of the tread. The various formulas for the variations are generally determined differently, however. Often these variations are based on a combination of trial and error, intuition, and economics. Some manufactures have models and analogs to test tread patterns and their variations. These efforts, however practical, do not determine the best variation beforehand or guarantee the best results. For this reason it was felt that a general mathematical approach fur determining the best variation was needed. Moreover, the method should be completely general, easy to use, and sufficiently accurate. This paper discusses a mathematical method called Mechanical Frequency Modulation(MFM) which meets the above requirements. Thus, MFM pertains to computing an irregular time sequence of events so that the resulting excitation spectrum is shaped to a preferred form. The first part of this paper treats the theoretical basis for computing an optimum variation ; the second part discusses experimental results and simulation program which corroborate the theory.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.39-46
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• 1993

조화집중이동하중을 받는 무한보에서의 음향방사에 대한 연구는 선박, 비행기, 타이어 트레드 밴느 등과 같은 계의 설계시 계의 구조물로부터 발생하는 소음에 대한 해결방안을 제시해 준다. 구조물 표면에 발생하는 음향파워는 svktnqusghks방법을 이용하여 보의 전길이에 분포된 음향 인텐시티를 적분하여 구한다. 보의 표면에서 발생하는 음향파원는 미하수, 장력, 감쇠계수, 기초강성계수, 그리고 파수비에 의해서 결정된다. 각 인자에 따른 음향파워에 대한 정성적인 분석을 수행하기 위해 심프슨 적분방법을 이용하여 수치적분을 하였다. 무한보에 작용하는 유체하중에 3다라 진동에너지가 음향에너지로 변환되는 비율이 달라진다. 밀도가 큰 유체는 등가감쇠로 작용하여 보로부터 방사된 음향에너지는 빠르게 감소된다. 하중의 이동에 의하여 도플러이동효과가 발생하여 무한보의 공진부근에서의 음향파워 파크가 분리되고 보의 기초감쇠의 영향으로 음향에너지는 감소된다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.2142-2149
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• 2002

Contacting with ground in the post-card area size only, tire supports entire automobile weight. As well, it characterizes most of automobile running performance. Among the design parameters, the carcass contour becomes a key design factor. This paper deals with the time-effective optimal design of tire crown contour in order to improve the tire wear performance by employing a back-propagation neural network model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.507-510
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• 2014

타이어의 마모는 여러 가지가 있을 수 있지만 일반적으로는 일반 마모와 이상마모로 두가지로 나뉠 것이다. 일반적인 마모는 자동차 주행 중의 마모로 적당한 주행거리에 교체 하면된다 하지만 이상마모는 일반적인 마모와 달리 각 타이어가 따로 마모가 되거나 타이어 일부분이 마모가 되는 것이다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 이상마모와 타이어의 마모도를 체크 하고자 복수개의 레이저 센서를 이용하여 각 타이어마다 이상마모와 타이어의 마모도를 체크 하는 시스템을 개발하여 주관적인 판단을 극복하고 객관적이고 정확한 판단을 내릴 것이다.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.201-208
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• 2013

In this study, effect of different amounts of sulfur and vulcanization accelerators in the acrylonitrile styrene-butadiene rubber (AN-SBR)/silica compounds on the properties of tire tread compound were studied. As a result, cure rate and degree of cross-linking of the compounds were increased due to enhanced cross-linking reactivity by the increased amounts of sulfur and vulcanization accelerators. Also, abrasion resistance and the mechanical properties such as hardness and modulus of the compounds were improved by enhanced degree of cross-linking of the compounds. For the dynamic properties, tan ${\delta}$ value at $0^{\circ}C$ was increased due to the increase of glass transition temperature ($T_g$) by enhanced degree of cross-linking of the compound, and tan ${\delta}$ value at $60^{\circ}C$ was decreased. Initial cure time ($t_1$) showed the linear relationship with tan ${\delta}$ value at $60^{\circ}C$. This result is attributed that reduced initial cure time ($t_1$) of compounds by applying increased amount of curatives can form cross-linking in early stage of vulcanization that may suppress development of filler network. This result is verified by observation on the surface of annealed compounds using AFM (atomic force microscopy). Consequently, decreased initial cure time is considered a very important parameter to reduce tan ${\delta}$ at $60^{\circ}C$ through reduced re-agglomeration of silica particles.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.357-363
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• 2015

The development of the environment-friendly tire that meets the standard requirements according to tire labeling system can be improved through using highly homogeneous silica immobilized zinc oxide nanoparticles. In this study, a considerable amount of nanoporous silica was essentially added into nano zinc oxide to improve the physiochemical properties of the formed composite. The introduction of nanoporous silica materials in the composite facilitates the improvement of the wear-resistance and increases the elasticity of the tread. Therefore, the introduction of nanoporous silica can replace carbon black as filler in the formation of composites with desirable properties for conventional green tire. Herein, mesoporous silica immobilized zinc oxide nanoparticle with desirable properties for rubber compounds was investigated. Composites with homogeneous dispersion were obtained in the absence of dispersants. The dispersion stability was controlled through varying the molar ratio, ageing time and mixing order of the reactants. A superior dispersion was achieved in the sample obtained using 0.03 mol of zinc precursor as it had the smallest grain size (50.5 nm) and then immobilized in silica aged for 10 days. Moreover, the specific surface area of this sample was the highest ($649m^2/g$).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.23 no.2_2
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• pp.163-171
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• 2020

The condition of tire tread is a key parameter closely related to the driving safety of a vehicle, which affects the contact force of the tire for braking, accelerating and cornering. The major factor influencing the contact force is tread wear, and the more tire tread wears out, the higher risk of losing control of a vehicle exits. The tire tread condition is generally checked by visual inspection that can be easily forgotten. In this paper, we propose the intelligent tire (iTire) system that consists of an acceleration sensor, a wireless signal transmission unit and a tread classifier. In addition, we also presents classification algorithm that transforms the acceleration signal into the frequency domain and extracts the features of several frequency bands as inputs to an artificial neural network. The artificial neural network for classifying tire wear was designed with an Multiple Layer Perceptron (MLP) model. Experiments showed that tread wear classification accuracy was over 80%.