• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.216-233
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• 2002

Due to the environmental problems of fuel consumption and vehicle emission, etc., automotive makers are trying to reduce the weight of vehicles. The most effective way to reduce a vehicle weight is to use lighter materials, such as aluminum and plastics. Aluminum Intensive Vehicle(AIV) has many advantages in the aspects of weight reduction, body stiffness and model change. So, most of automotive manufacturers are attempting to develop AIV using Aluminum Space Frame(ASF). The weight of AIV can be generally reduced to about 30% than that of conventional steel vehicle without the loss of impact energy absorbing capability. And the body stiffness of AIV is higher than that of conventional steel monocoque body. In this study, Aluminum Intensive Vehicle is developed and analyzed on the basis of steel monocoque body. The energy absorbing characteristics of aluminum extrusion components are investigated from the test and simulation results. The crush and crash characteristics of AIV based on the FMVSS 208 regulations are evaluated in comparison with steel monocoque. Using these results, the design concepts of the effective energy absorbing members and the design guide line to improve crashworthiness for AIV are suggested.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.09a
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• pp.276-278
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 하이브리드 자동차의 고전원 전기장치 및 고전원 배선에서 인체의 직접 접촉 및 간접접촉에 의한 자전사고틀 방지하기 절연저항의 측정 방법을 제시하였다. 하이브리드 자동차에서 절연저항은 ISO 및 ECE, FMVSS, Attachment 등의 국외규격에서 $100{\Omega}/Vdc$, $500{\Omega}/Vac$ 이상을 유지하도록 규정하고 있다. 하지만 하이브리드 및 전기자동차의 구조에 맞는 절연저항 측정 방법에 대한 정확한 방법이 제시되어 있지 않기 때문에 본 연구에서는 하이브리드 및 전기자동차의 절연저항 측정 방법에 있어 외국의 규격에서 제시하고 있는 방법과 비교를 통하여 실제 차량에서 적용한 수 있는 절연저항 측정 기법을 제시할 것이다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.144-155
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• 1999

An occupant analysis code SAFE (Safety Analysis For occupant crash Environment) is utilized to simulate and improve the crash performance of an energy absorbing steering system. The safety standard FMVSS 203 is simulated and used for design evaluations . Segments and contact elliposids are utilized to model the bod blocks and the components of the steering system with SAFE. Spring-damper elements and force-deflection characteristics are utilized to model the energy absorbing components such as the plate and the polyacetal molding. The plate absorbs the impact energy through tensile deformation . Whereas, the polyacetal molding absorbs the impact energy through compression. the body block test is carried out to validate tie simulation model, and real component tests are performed to extract the force-deflection curves . After the model is validated , the parameter study is carried out to evaluate the crash performance of the energy absorbing components. A performance measure is defined for the parameter study. Using the results of the parameter study and managing the orthogonal arrays, optimum design values of energy absorbing components are determined to minize the occupant injury.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.10-15
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• 2012

The design of automobile occupant seat belt system has been studied by using MADYMO. Based on the FMVSS 208 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 208) and the USNCAP (United States New Car Assessment Program) regulations, seat belt design parameters were chosen for the design improvement to the 5th percentile female dummy: limit force of load limiter, time to fire of shoulder belt, inlet length of shoulder belt, inlet length of lap belt. The design of experiment method was employed to optimize the design parameters of passenger seat belt. Range of injury probability due to the change of H-point position was estimated by the simulation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.69-74
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• 2008

The heat generated by the brake system of vehicles results in reduction of friction force on the brake surface and vibration during a braking. To solve these problems, extensive research for the brake shape has been conducted such as drilling cooling holes on the brake disc, accommodating ventilated holes and etc. In this study, we suggest the circumferential pressing type brake disc in order to improve its cooling performance. In order to compare the cooling-down efficiency between the conventional side-pressing type and the circumferential-pressing type, we adopted the FMVSS 105-77 as thermal analysis conditions and This newly proposed concept has been verified using Thermal-structure Coupled Field Analysis along with comparative analysis with the existing ventilated disk.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.133-141
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 전기자동차의 고전압 시스템의 안전성을 확보하기 위한 법규 규제안 생성 방법론을 제시하였다. 법규가 기술적으로 모든 영역을 빠뜨리지 않고 정의하고 있는지를 파악하기 위한 방법으로 법규분포분석법(Regulation Distribution Analysis Method)과 법규 완전도 분석법(Regulation Completeness Analysis Method)을 제시하였다. 자동차 설계와 생산에 있어서 법규/규제는 중요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 원칙적으로 법규는 자동차 승객과 환경을 보호하는 목적으로 생성되고, 이윤 추구 중심의 시장에서 놓칠 수 있는 기술적 항목들을 규제할 수 있도록 한다. 매연 배출 정도, 매연 모니터링 시스템, 전기 안전성과 같은 항목이 그 예이며, 향후 연료전기자동차 양산을 앞두고는 고전압 안전성과 관련된 규제 또한 필요하게 될 것으로 파악된다. 그러나 규제 항목에서 미정의된 부분이 있는지를 확인하는 체계적인 방법이 없어 본 논문에서는 기술적인 파라미터를 중심으로 규제항목을 검토하는 방법론을 제시하였다.

• Advances in Automotive Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.123-141
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• 2018

Hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) simulation is a very powerful tool to design, test and verify automotive control systems. However, well-validated and high degree of freedom vehicle models have to be utilized in these simulations in order to obtain realistic results. In this paper, a vehicle dynamics model developed in the Carsim Real Time program environment and its validation has been performed using experimental results. The developed Carsim real time model has been employed in the Tofas R&D hardware-in-the-loop simulator. Experimental and hardware-in-the-loop simulation results have been compared for the standard FMVSS No. 126 test and the results have been found to be in good agreement with each other. Two electronic stability control (ESC) algorithms, named the Basic ESC and the Integrated ESC, taken from the earlier work of the authors have been tested and evaluated in the hardware-in-the-loop simulator. Different evaluation methods have been formulated and used to compare these ESC algorithms. As a result, the Integrated ESC system has been shown superior performance as compared to the Basic ESC algorithm.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.130-137
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• 2015

This paper presents the development process of automotive side door impact beam for passenger cars. Weight reduction while maintaining functional requirements is one of the major goals in the automotive industry. In this study, thin-walled side door beam using quenchable boron steel was designed to reduce the weight of conventional side door tubular one. In order to estimate design for the proposed side door beams, the static side impact protection tests(FMVSS 214) were conducted using the finite element method. Based on the simulation results, geometry modification of the side door beam has been performed via creating new reinforcing ribs. Furthermore, the manufactured frontal impact beam was mounted on the real side door of a passenger car, and then static impact protection test carried out. It is concluded that the presented test results can provide significant contribution to the stiffness of side door impact beams and light-weighting door research.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.176-181
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• 2009

The passenger airbag(PAB) designed for standard sized adults may induce unexpected results to children in out-of-position(OOP) postures. In this work, using MADYMO software, simulations of the OOP injury of children have been performed with respect to PAB design parameters and child dummy positions. The attention is focused on some details with respect to the injury of 3 and 6 year old children in two OOP postures. Among the various design parameters of the passenger airbag systems, four parameters are selected for the sensitivity analysis of the injury with the Taguchi method: bag folding pattern, vent hole size, position of the cover tear seam and the type of door tear seam. An optimal combination of the parameters is suggested.

• Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.57-62
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• 2019

The seat back frame of the vehicle is subjected to load on the passenger behavior. Because of steel material, it is necessary to optimize the frame considering lightweight and safety. In this paper, finite element analysis is used for the optimal design of the seat back frame. First, a lightweight material is applied to reduce the weight of the seat back frame. Secondly, the design position of the pipe part fastened in the seat back frame was selected by considering the strength against the load generated by the occupant. Third, the shape of the side frame was derived by performing the phase optimization analysis for the AFT load condition. And we have compared the initial model with the optimal model to verify the light weighting and safety. As a result, the optimal design model of the seat back frame satisfying the weight reduction and safety has been proposed.