• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.578-582
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• 1996

Verification of STL is essential in RP. In the study, triangle based non-manifold geometric modeling that can check intersection between triangles was used to vilify STL. The method proposed in this study can be applied at the most general case and very useful, but has a penalty on computing thime of O(n$^2$)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.185-191
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• 2000

Direct ＆ adaptive slicing of sculptured surfaces in RP improves, quality ＆ accuracy of the final product, compared to the slicing with uniform layer thickness or the slicing of facets (ie, STL). Present D＆A slicing procedures adaptively compute the next layer thickness based on the surface information of current sliced contour, which assumes constant normal curvature values. In some cases, however. such assumption leads to intolerable slicing result which cannot correctly consider the entire local feature shape. We propose improved adaptive slicing algorithms which can determine near-optimal layer thickness, including illustrated examples.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.15 no.6 s.87
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• pp.436-440
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• 2006

A rapid tooling (RT) method fur the resin transfer molding (RTM) have been investigated. We fabricated a curved I-beam to verify the method. After creating a three-dimensional CAD model of the beam we fabricated a prototype of the model using a rapid prototyping (RP) machine. A soft mold was made using the prototype by the conventional silicone mold technique. The procedure and method of mold fabrication is described. The mold was cut into several parts to allow easier placement of the fiber preform. We conducted the resin transfer molding process and manufactured a composite beam with the mold. The preform was built by stacking up eight layers of delicately cut carbon fabrics. The fabrics were properly stitched to maintain the shape while placement. The manufactured composites beam was inspected and found well-impregnated. The fiber volume ratio of the fabricated beam was 16.85%.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.307-311
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• 2001

신속조형시스템(RP : Rapid Prototyping)용 자료교환 표준인 STL의 자료구조는 단순하고, 조형용 2차원 단면 자료로의 전환이 용이하며, 생산 가공 기술로서의 현대적인 특성(신속성, 조형성, 경제성, 청정성 등)을 가지고 이는 장점이 있는 반면에, STL 3D 좌표값의 기준(좌표계의 원점)이 되는 크기 정보가 없다. 이런 문제를 구현된 STL 뷰어에서는, 스케일링(scaling) 기법과 선형적인 이동 기법을 사용하여 해결하였고, CAD 시스템으로 제작된 파일 자체의 문제점 패싯(facet) 중복, 정밀도, 법선 벡터 값의 오류 등도 검증기(verifier)와 오류 정정기(error corrector)글 구현하여 해결하였다. 제안된 방법으로 구현된 STL 뷰어는 시스템의 안정성과 확장성, 그리고 효율성 측면에서 우수한 성능을 보였으며, 슬라이싱(slicing), 경로 추적기(path tracer)의 전처리기의 역할을 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.9 s.174
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• pp.194-201
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• 2005

Recently, as Rapid Prototyping is attracting people's attention, many peoples are actively participating in the research on STL format. The STL files are transformed to be input for RP after modeling in CAD system. When the shape, however, needs to be changed or edited, it is impossible without the original data. So, if the original data is lost, new modeling is required. Therefore, this study suggests a way to edit the shape in STL format and to make the Boolean operation possible between the original and edited shapes. In addition, the reliability was confirmed after going over the errors of the edited data.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.4 s.97
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• pp.19-25
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• 1999

This paper addresses a development work of a SLA apparatus on laboratory basis. The SLA test machine is composed of optical, movement, curing and control subsystems. Optical part is performed by a He-Cd laser with mirror combination and mechanical movement is achieved by X-Y table. The developed system is evaluated by several test runs, and shows a good precision capability in forming a basic part. The technique used in this work can be extended to replace the high technology transfer cost of commercial RP machine.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 1998

Several adaptive and direct slicing methods have been developed to make the slice data for RP parts with better accuracy and speed. This research deals with a new adaptive slicing algorithm that shows drastic improvement in computing time for calculating the slices of a part. First, it uses less number of sampling points fur each slice in determining the thickness of the next slice. Secondly, the idea of contour map is utilized to determine the optimal sampling point on each slice. Thirdly, the calculation efficiency is further improved by introducing vertical character lines of the given part. The results in terms of accuracy and speed are compared with the existing methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.23 no.2 s.179
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• pp.199-206
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• 2006

Automatic grease lubricator is equipment that provides adequate amount of fresh grease constantly to the shaft and the bearings of machines. It minimizes the friction heat and reduces the friction loss of machines to the least. This research is to develop automatic grease lubricator by gear driven mechanism with controlled operation time. The ultimate design of this equipment is to lubricate an adequate amount of grease by a simple switch clicking according to the advanced set cycle. The backlash of the gear was minimized to increase the output power. To increase the power of gear mechanism, the binding frequency and the thickness of the coil were changed. To control the rotating cycles of the main shaft according to its set numbers, different resistance and chips were used to design the circuit to controls electrical signals with pulse. The body of the lubricator was analyzed by stress analysis with different constructed angle. The stress analysis for differing loading pressures applied to the exterior body of grease lubricator due to the setup angle, was found that the maximum stress was distributed over the outlet part where the grease lubricator suddenly narrowed contracts. Digital mock-up was analyzed and the rapid prototyping(RP) trial products were tested with PCB circuit and grease. The evaluation of the outlet capacity for RP trial products was conducted, because the friction caused by the outlet on the wall surface was an important factor in the operation of the equipment. Finally, the finishing process was applied to decrease the roughness of the surface to a comparable level and was able to test the performance examination for the product.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.433-438
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• 2004

The rapid machining of prototypes plays an important role in product process. Rapid Prototyping(RP) is the widespread technology to produce prototype. But, it have many problems such as shrinkage, deformation and formation occurred by hardening of resin and stair shaping, On the contrary, high speed machining(HSM) technology has many advantages such as good quality, low cost and rapid machining time. Moreover, it is possible to use the material of original product. This paper presents manufacture of trial product by HSM and optimization of machining condition for high productivity in the view of manufacturing time and average error. For example, propeller is machined by the surface machining of thin surface parts. Experiments are designed of machining conditions by Latin Square method and machining condition is optimized and selected by ANOVA