• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1639-1646
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• 2001

It is often necessary that the joints characteristics should be determined in the early stage of the vehicle body design. The researches on identification of joints in a vehicle body have been performed until the recent year. In this study, the joint characteristics of vehicle structure were expressed as the condensed matrix forms from the full joint stiffness matrix. The condensed joint stiffness matrix was applied to typical T-type and Edge-type joints, and the usefulness was confirmed. In addition, it was applied to the real center pillar model and the full vehicle body in order to validate the practical application.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.9-16
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• 1998

The joint characteristics are necessary to be determined in the early stage of the vehicle body design. Researches on identification of joints in a vehicle body have been performed until the recent year. In this study, the joint characteristics of vehicle struct- ure were expressed as condensed forms from the full joint stiffness and mass matrix. The condensed joint stiffness and mass matrix were applied to typical T-type and Edge-type joints, and the usefulness was confirmed. In addition, those were applied to center pillar and full vehicle body to validate the practical application.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2010년도 추계학술발표논문집 2부
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• pp.785-787
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• 2010

It is well known that most power steering systems obtain the power by a hydraulic mechanism. Therefore, it consumes more energy because the oil power should be sustained all the times. Recently, to solve this problem the Electric Power System(EPS) or Motor Driven Power System(MDPS) has widely equipped in passenger vehicles. In this research the concurrent simulation technique for an EPS system with MATLAB/SIMULINK and a full vehicle model has been developed. The dynamic responses of vehicle chassis and steering system are evaluated. Then, a full vehicle model interacted with EPS control is concurrently simulated with an impulsive steering wheel torque input to analyze the stability of 'free control' or hands free motion for SUV. This integrated method allows engineers to reduce the prototype testing cost and to shorten the developing period.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2016

The objective of this study was to find the factors affecting the results of full frontal barrier impact test for the NCAP (New Car Assessment Program). To find the factors, the frontal NCAP test results of the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) were utilized. The three tested vehicle were same model year. It was observed the second peak value of barrier force affected the occupant injury risk. As the second peak value of the barrier force increases, the injury risk of the driver side occupant increases as well.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.135-145
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 다항로짓모형 기반의 차종선택모형을 추정하여 개별 구매자의 차종선택행태를 분석하였다. 차량운전자를 대상으로 SP 설문조사를 수행하여 모형추정을 위한 자료를 수집하였으며, 설문응답자가 선택 가능한 대안은 가솔린차, HEV, PHEV, EV로 한정하였다. 모형에 포함된 설명변수는 대부분 유의수준 5% 하에서 유의한 것으로 나타났으며, price, fuel 변수를 제외한 나머지 변수는 모두 양(+)의 부호로 상식적인 방향과 일치하여 결과가 합리적인 것으로 판단된다. 중 대형을 선택하는 구매자는 타 차급을 선택하는 구매자보다 경제적 여유가 있어 차량가격 등에 비하여 상대적으로 지출금액이 낮은 연료비는 크게 고려하지 않는 경향이 강하다. 이러한 이유로 대형 차급의 모형에서는 fuel 변수가 유의하지 않은 것으로 판단되며, 사회경제변수의 경우 경 소형에서는 age, infor 변수가, 중 대형에서는 age, infor, inc3 변수가 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 나타났다.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2011

Under the full frontal crash event, seatbelt system is the most typical and primary restraint device that prevents the second impact between an occupant and vehicle interior parts by limiting the forward motion of an occupant in the vehicle occupant packaging space. Today's restraint systems typically include the three-point seat belt with the pretensioner and the load limiter. A pretensioner preemptively tightens the seat belts removing any slack between a passenger and belt webbing which leads to early restraint of a passenger. After that a load limiter controls level of belt load by releasing the belt webbing to reduce occupant injurys. In this study, load characteristics of load limiters are optimized by the computer simulation with a MADYMO model for a frontal impact against the rigid wall at 56kph and then we suggest performance requirements. We derived optimum load characteristic from the results using four vehicle simulation models represented by the vehicle. Based on the results, we suggest the performance from the results of the second optimization using the simulation considering the design and the standardization. Finally, the performance requirements is verified by the sled tests including the load limiter device for the full vehicle condition.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.116-122
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• 2011

A realtime simulator using an explicit integration method is introduced to improve the solving performance for the dynamic analysis of a wheeled vehicle. Because a full vehicle system has many parts, the development of a numerical technique for multiple d.o.f. and ground contacts has been required to achieve a realtime dynamics analysis. This study proposes an efficient realtime solving technique that considers the wheeled vehicle dynamics behavior with full degrees of freedom and wheel contact with soft ground such as sand or undersea ground. A combat vehicle was developed to verify this method, and its dynamics results are compared with commercial programs using implicit integration methods. The combat vehicle consists of a chassis, double wishbone type front and rear suspension, and drive train. Some cases of vehicle dynamics analysis are carried out to verify the realtime ratio.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2007

This paper proposes a traction control system (TCS) that uses a sliding mode wheel slip controller and a PID throttle valve controller. In addition, a yaw motion controller (YMC) is also developed to improve lateral stability using a PID rear wheel steering angle controller. The dynamics of a vehicle and characteristics of the controllers are validated using a proposed full-car model. A driver model is also designed to steer the vehicle during maneuvers on a split ${\mu}$ road and double lane change maneuver. The simulation results show that the proposed full-car model is sufficient to predict vehicle responses accurately. The developed TCS provides improved acceleration performances on uniform slippery roads and split ${\mu}$ roads. When the vehicle is cornering and accelerating with the brake or engine TCS, understeer occurs. An integrated TCS eliminates these problems. The YMC with the integrated TCS improved the lateral stability and controllability of the vehicle.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.519-525
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• 2010

승용 차량과 항공기와 같은 대형 구조물에 대한 해석에는 유한요소법이 일반적으로 사용되고 있다. 그러나 대형 구조물을 유한요소로 모델화 하여 해석하는 경우에는 자유도의 수가 수천에서 수만에 이르게 되어 이를 직접 해석하기 위해서는 많은 시간과 노력이 필요하다. 따라서 차량 모델과 같은 대형 복잡 구조물을 효율적으로 해석하기 위해 부분구조 합성법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Craig-Bampton 방법을 이용한 전차량 모델링 방법을 제안하고 전차량 모델의 진동 특성을 분석하였다. 차량 모델을 구성하는 각 부분을 각각 부분구조 모델로 치환한 후 다시 합성하여 전차량 모델을 구성하였다. 또한, 서브프레임 주요 설계변수, 즉 마운트 위치나 프레임 크기의 편차가 전체 시스템의 모드 특성의 통계적 변화에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2004

The majority of real world frontal collisions involves partial overlap (offset) collision, in which only one of the two longitudinal members is used for energy absorption. This leads to dangerous intrusions of the passenger compartment. Excessive intrusion is usually generated on the impacted side causing higher contact injury risk on the occupants compared with full frontal collision. The ideal structure needs to have extendable length when the front-end structure is not capable to absorb crash energy without violating deceleration pulse requirements. A smart structure has been proposed to meet this ideal requirement. The proposed front-end structure consists of two hydraulic cylinders integrated with the front-end longitudinal members of standard vehicles. The work carried out in this paper includes developing and analyzing mathematical models of two different cases representing vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-barrier in full and offset collisions. By numerical crash simulations, this idea has been evaluated and optimized. It is proven form numerical simulations that the smart structures bring significantly lower intrusions and decelerations. In addition, it is shown that the mathematical models are valid, flexible, and can be used in an effective way to give a quick insight of real life crashes.