• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.735-742
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• 2001

This paper reports on the dynamics and friction characteristics of piston skirt with consideration of mixed lubrication. Piston skirt is an important part of the engine that transforms fuel into mechanical energy. The durability and low friction characteristics are important recent issues in piston skirt design. In this paper, the piston skirt motion is analyzed with consideration of mixed lubrication and piston skirt tilting motion. The entire trajectory of piston motion is obtained by using transient numerical method. Also various parameter studies are performed for piston skirt design and the development of lower frictional engine.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.349-356
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• 2003

The aim of this paper is to investigate the friction characteristics of piston assembly. The friction of piston assembly is composed of ring pack and skirt friction. In this paper, the theoretical models of piston ring pack and piston skirt were presented. The mixed lubrication theory was considered to calculate friction force of piston ring and skirt. from the results, most of friction in piston assembly occurred at the piston ring park. The piston assembly usually showed hydrodynamic lubrication characteristics. but the top and bottom dead centers showed mixed lubrication characteristics. The piston skirt was much affected by radial clearance and load, but ring was significantly influenced by ring tension.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.385-396
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• 2000

The secondary motion of piston occurs due to the transient forces and moments in the clearances between piston skirt and cylinder liner The motions are very related to the skirt profile and the magnitude of piston-pin offset. Above all, the elastic deformation is another major effect on the piston secondary motion that has not been considered in the previous researches. In this work, the effects of elastic deformation of the piston skirt on the secondary piston motion are studied for the frictional power loss by using commercial softares, PISDYN and ANSYS.

• KSTLE International Journal
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.84-89
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• 2002

Clearance movements of engine piston are very related to the piston impact to the engine block as well as many tribological problems. Some of the major parameters that influence these kinds of performances are piston profiles, piston offsets and clearance magnitudes. In our study, computational investigation is performed about the piston movements in the clearance between piston and cylinder liner by changing the skirt profiles and piston offsets. Our results show that curved profile and more offset magnitude to thrust side have better performance that has low side impact during the engine cycle.

• KSTLE International Journal
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2002

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of design parameters on the friction loss in piston skirt. An analytical model to describe the friction characteristics of piston skirt has been presented, which is based on the secondary motion of piston and mixed lubrication theory, It could be shown that the skirt friction closely depends on the side force acted on the piston pin. The side force is inf1uenced by cylinder pressure at low engine speed, but by inertia force at high engine speed. The usage of extensive skirt area and low weight piston is effective to reduce the friction loss at high speed. The low viscosity oil considerably decreases viscous friction as engine speed increases, but it increases boundary friction at low engine speed. From the parametric study, it is found that the skirt axial profile is the most important design parameter related to the reduction of skirt friction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.253-257
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• 2000

This paper reports on the development of the analysis program of the piston skirt system, PS-LAP. It is essential to verify the stability of the design and to improve the performance of the system. In order to do that efficiently, it is required that integrated and interactive simulation analysis program. PS-LAP is developed in the base of the object-oriented, capsulation, modulization, OLE(objected linking and embedding) and variational design theory. So it contain the expandability and flexibility of the structure. In addition to that, it is programed to make the convenient user interface by using the visualization programming. It can support the modification of the piston skirt shape, lubrication condition and so on. It is expected to reduce the money and effort for design the piston skirt system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.225-231
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• 1999

A lubrication model on a two dimensional Reynolds equation is presented in this paper. And also this paper gives mathematical models of primary and secondary motion of piston skirt.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.23-31
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• 2004

Secondary movements of piston in the bore clearance are closely related to the side impact to the engine block as well as many tribological problems. Some of the major parameters that influence these kinds of movements are piston profile shapes (barrel and flat), piston pin offsets and the magnitudes of bore clearances. In our study, computational investigations are performed about the piston movements in the bore clearance by changing the skirt profiles and piston offsets. In this work, it is found that curved profile and larger offset magnitude to thrust side provide better performance that has low side impact during the engine cycle.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.5-11
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• 2008

An analytical study was performed to have temperature and thermal stress distribution on a piston with the change of the 2nd land length of a piston and the existence of knocking in a cylinder. The result showed that the temperature on the skirt region was about $4\sim10^{\circ}C$ higher than that on the pin region. However the thermal stress on the skirt region was about 4MPa lower than on the pin region. It may be due to the higher heat release rate on the pin boss than on the skirt. The result regarding the variation of the 2nd land length of the piston showed that the temperature distribution on the piston was getting lower and the thermal stress distribution was getting higher as the 2nd land length of the piston was shorter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.227-236
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• 2000

The secondary motion of piston greatly influences the dynamic and frictional performances of an engine. The motion is very related to the clearance, sliding velocity and skirt profile, etc. In our work, piston dynamics is analyzed with the commercial analysis software, PISDYN by Ricardo Consultant Engineers, Inc. The effects of profiles with piston pin offsets are studied regarding the secondary motion of piston and several results are compared.