• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.247-248
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• 2013

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.193-201
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• 2007

The present paper deals with the application of the explicit finite element code, PAM-CRASH, to simulate the crash behavior of steel thin-walled tubes with various cross-sections subjected to axial loading. An isotropic elastic, linear strain-hardening material model was used in the finite element analysis and the strain-rate sensitivity of mild steel was modeled by using the Cowper-Symonds constitutive equation with modified coefficients. The modified coefficients were applied in numerical collapse simulations of 11 types of thin-walled polygon tubes: 7 convex polygon tubes and 4 concave polygon tubes. The results show that the thin hexagonal tube and the thick octagonal tube showed relatively good performance within the convex polygon tubes. The crush strengths of the hexagonal and octagonal tubes increased by about 20% and 25% from the crush strength of the square tube, respectively. Among the concave tubes, the I-type tube showed the best performance. Its crush strength was about 50% higher than the crush strength of the square tube.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.49-60
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• 2023

After the 10.29 Itaewon disaster, interests in the crowd crush injury increased, but it is pointed out that the academic and practical basis related to crowd crush is still weak in Korea. Therefore, in this study, terms and concepts related to crowd crush were investigated and proposed, and representative cases of crowd crush events were investigated and summarized. Approaches based on representative cases were investigated, and among them, video analysis, simulation, questionnaire survey and interview methods were derived as an essential approach methods. Through this research, it is expected that standardization of Korean terminology, concept establishment, evaluation, and systematization of approach methods of crowd crush can be accomplished.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2015

It is expected that the size of welding defect affects the mechanical performance of welded medium density polyethylene (MDPE) pipe joints. In this study, butt fusion welded MDPE pipe joints with a single spherical or planar defect of various sizes were studied using experimental crush testing and also by finite element method. The crush test showed that the mechanical performance of crush was not affected by the size and geometry of a single welding defect when the defect size was increased to 45% of the pipe's wall thickness. The simulation results indicated that the effect of the single welding defect on the Von Mises stress distribution near the defect explained the reason of the test results.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.229-234
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• 2001

The aluminum extruded sections are used to the light construction of the high speed rail vehicle structures. However, the research works on the crashworthy design of aluminum extruded sections are not published sufficiently. In this paper, the collapse characteristics of aluminum extruded sections are investigated by crush test and simulation. The scale model studies are also performed to predict the impact energy absorption characteristics of full scale model through axial crush test and simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.683-684
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.829-830
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.45-52
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• 1999

In this study, a new bridge rail system is proposed to prevent large vehicles from running off the bridge edge. The crush model has accounted for the effects of both curbs and bridge rails which are simulated by Highway Vehicle Object Simulation Model(HVOSM) and BARRIER VII. Vehicle sizes ranged from minicars weighing 1800kg to large vehicles weighing 14000kg, and impact angles ranged from 15$^{\circ}$ to 25$^{\circ}$.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.363-369
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• 2000

Due to environmental problem for reduction in fuel consumption, vehicle emission and etc., many automotive makers are trying to reduce the weight of the vehicle. The most effective way to reduce the weight of vehicle is to use lighter materials, aluminum, plastics. Aluminum Space Frame has many advantages in weight reduction, body stiffness, ease of model change and so on. So, most of automotive manufacturers are attempting to develope Aluminum Space Frame body. For these reasons, we have developed Aluminum Intensive Vehicle based on steel monocoque body with Hyundai Motor Company. We achieved about 30% weight reduction, the stiffness of our model was higher than that of conventional steel monocoque body. In this paper, with optimization using FEM analysis, we could get more weight reduction and body stiffness increase. In the long run, we analyzed by means of simulation using PAM-CRASH to evaluate crush and crash characteristic of Aluminum Intensive Vehicle in comparison to steel monocoque automotive.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.471-476
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• 2001

The main object of this study is to develop a reliable FEM simulation technique for stability test using ABAQUS software and to clarify the effect of base profile of a steel D&I(drawn and ironed) can on the dome reversal pressure. For the can after body making simulation, two kind of stability test, dome buckle test and axial crush test are performed. The factors studied in the base profile on the dome reversal pressure are the base diameter, the rim radius, the dome shoulder radius, the dome radius and the dome depth. Within the limits before the occurrence of normal snap-through buckling of dome, the dome reversal pressure is improved by decreasing the base diameter, increasing the dome depth or increasing the dome shoulder depth.