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Durability and Stress Analysis On Automotive Lower Arm (자동차 로우어 암의 내구성 및 응력 해석)

  • Cho, Jae-Ung;Han, Moon-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.376-380
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    • 2010
  • The capability of automotive suspension system depends on steering safety of knuckle and lower control arm. In this study, light weight is applied with lower arm by the material of aluminium alloy. Distributed stress, fatigue life and proper vibration are analyzed with multiple loads happened by automobile. The durability of lower arm can be verified by the result of structural analysis.

The Geographical Restructuring of the EU Automobile Production System (EU의 지역적 확대와 자동차 생산체계의 지리적 재구조화)

  • Moon, Nam-Cheol
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.243-260
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    • 2006
  • The continuing enlargement, deepening integration of EU and penetration of extra-EU enterprise into EU market are forming a new geographical restructure of the production system. In this paper, I analyse the changing geography of the EU automotive production system. The globalization and regionalisation of production activity intensify a competition among the enterprise. The European automotive production system changes to a platform system and a modular system for a diminution of productive costs, a development of various products and a frequent innovation of products. The European automotive enterprise is restructuring geographically the production functions and products in order to promote efficiency on a new production system, enlarged production space and intensified economic integration. The European automotive industry tends to a spatial specialization and agglomeration according to the locational factors of production functions and products and the locational condition of regions. This intensifies the geographical hierarchic structure of production activity between the core and the periphery.

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Performance Evaluation of a $CO_2$ Heat Pump System for Fuel Cell Vehicles (연료전지 자동차용 이산화탄소 열펌프 시스템의 성능평가)

  • Kim, Sung-Chul;Park, Jong-Chul;Kim, Min-Soo;Won, Jong-Phil
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2008
  • The global warming potential (GWP) of $CO_2$ refrigerant is 1/1300 times lower than that of R134a. Furthermore, the size and weight of the automotive heat pump system can decrease because $CO_2$ operates at high pressure with significantly higher discharge temperature and larger temperature change. The presented $CO_2$ heat pump system was designed for both cooling and heating in fuel cell vehicles. In this study, the performance characteristics of the heat pump system were analyzed for heating, and results for performance were provided for operating conditions when using recovered heat from the stack coolant. The performance of the heat pump system with heater core was compared with that of the conventional heating system with heater core and that of the heat pump system without heater core, and thus the heat pump system with heater core showed the best performance among the selected heating systems. On the other hand, the heating performance of two different types of coolant/air heat pump systems with heater core was compared each other at various coolant inlet temperatures. Furthermore, to use exhausted thermal energy through the radiator, experiments were carried out by changing the arrangement of a radiator and an outdoor evaporator, and quantified the heating effectiveness.