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A Study on the Accelerated Life Test of Rubber Specimens by using Stress Relaxation (응력완화를 이용한 고무시편의 가속수명시험 연구)

  • Lee, Su-Yeong;You, Ji Hye;Lee, Yong-Sung;Kim, Hong Seok;Cheong, Seong-Kyun;Shin, Ki-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2016
  • Rubber parts are widely used in many applications such as dampers, shock absorbers, and seals used in railway and automotive industries. Much research has thus far been conducted on property estimation and life prediction of rubber parts. To predict the service life of rubber parts at room temperature, most prior work adopts the well-known Arrhenius model that needs the accelerated life test in high-temperature conditions. However, they may not reflect the actual conditions of use that rubber parts are usually used under a specific strain condition during long period of time. In this context, we propose a method for the life prediction of rubber parts in actual conditions of use. The proposed method is based on the accelerated life test using stress relaxation during which three relatively high elongation percentages (100%, 200%, and 300%) are applied to the rubber specimens. Rubber specimens were prepared in accordance with KS M 6518 standard and three stress relaxation testers were fabricated for actual experiments. Finally, a inverse power model for life prediction was derived from experimental results. The predicted life was compared with the actual test life for validation.

Exterior Vision Inspection Method of Injection Molding Automotive Parts (사출성형 자동차부품의 외관 비전검사 방법)

  • Kim, HoYeon;Cho, Jae-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we propose a visual inspection method of automotive parts for injection molding to improve the appearance quality and productivity of automotive parts. Exterior inspection of existing injection molding automobile parts was generally done by manual sampling inspection by human. First, we applied the edge-tolerance vision inspection algorithm ([1] - [4]) for vision inspection of electronic components (TFT-LCD and PCB) And we propose a new visual inspection method to overcome the problem. In the proposed visual inspection, the inspection images of the parts to be inspected are aligned on the basis of the reference image of good quality. Then, after partial adaptive binarization, the binary block matching algorithm is used to compare the good binary image and the test binary image. We verified the effectiveness of the edge-tolerance vision check algorithm and the proposed appearance vision test method through various comparative experiments using actual developed equipment.

FE Analysis of Hydroforming Process for Flange Forming (액압 성형 공정 시 플랜지부 형성을 위한 FE 해석)

  • Choi, M.K.;Joo, B.D.;Moon, Y.H.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2010
  • Hydroforming has attracted a great deal of attention in the manufacturing industries for vehicles and transportation systems. Hydroforming technology contributes to weight reduction, increased strength, improved quality and reduced tooling cost. Hydroformed automotive parts used as structure components in vehichle body frame often have to be structurally joined at some point. Therefore it is useful if the hydroformed automotive parts can be given a localized attachment flange. For a given flange shape, a parting plane for the dies is established relative to which the various surfaces of the flange shape, in cross section, have no significant reverse curvature. In this study, hydroforming process for flange forming was proposed. FE analysis to form flanged circular shape and flanged rectangular shape was preformed with Dynaform 5.5. To accomplish successful hydroforming process design, thorough investigation on proper combination of process parameters such as tool geometry and hydraulic pressure has been performed and optimized. The results show that flanged automotive parts can be successfully produced with tube hydroforming.

Mechanical Properties of Hyper-Eutectic Aluminum Alloys for Automobile Parts (자동차 부품용 과공정 알루미늄 합금의 기계적 특성)

  • Bae, Chul-Hong;Kim, Jong-Myung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.120-126
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    • 2010
  • It was known that the excellent wear resistance of hyper eutectic aluminum alloy is based on the primary Si particles which are distributed in the base metal. When the primary Si volume fraction increases, the smaller size have excellent wear resistance characteristics. However, this trend always does not match. There is no investigation result based on the materials and methods for real using parts. In this study, using the automotive parts manufacturer currently in use hyper eutectic Al alloy tensile test specimen type sample was fabricated by 350Ton high pressure die-casting machine. Then, fluidity, tensile, impact and wear resistance properties were evaluated. If the casting quality, primary Si size, fraction and distribution are similar, mechanical properties and wear resistance are equivalent.

A study on the squeeze casting of Al-7.0Si-0.4Mg alloy for fuel system parts

  • Kim Soon-Ho;Kim Seong-Soo
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.56-59
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    • 2005
  • Aluminum alloy casting is gaining increased acceptance in automotive and electronic industries and especially, squeeze casting is the most efficient method of mass manufacturing of such parts. In this study, the microstructures and mechanical properties of Al-7.0Si-0.4Mg(AC4C) alloy fabricated by squeeze casting process for development of fuel system parts (fuel rail) are investigated. The microstructure of squeeze cast specimen was composed of eutectic structure aluminum solid solution and $Mg_2Si$ precipitates. The tensile strength of as-solid solution treatment Al-7.0Si-0.4Mg alloy was 298.5MPa. It was found that Al-7.0Si-0.4Mg alloy had good corrosion resistance in electrochemical polarization test.