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Modeling the Calculation of Lateral Accelerations in Railway Vehicles as a Tool of Alignment Design

  • Nasarre, J.;Cuadrado, M.;Requejo, P.Gonzalez;Romo, E.;Zamorano, C.
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 2009
  • Railway track alignment Standards set a minimum lenght value for straight and circular alignments (art. 5.2.9.), in order to ensure passenger ride comfort in railway vehicles of which dynamic oscillations will thus have to be limited. The transitions between alignments can cause abrupt changes (usually called discontinuities or singular points of the alignment) of curvature, of rate of change of curvature or of rate of change of cant. A passenger is likely to experience effects due to the excitation of the elastic suspension of the vehicle which generates oscillations that are damped as the vehicle moves away from the singularity. The amplitude of these oscillations should be adequately attenuated by the damping of the suspension system within the interval between two successive singular points, especially to avoid resonances. Therefore minimum lengths between two successive singular points are stated in alignment standards. Nevertheless, these nonnative values can be overly conservative in some cases. As an alternative, track alignment designers could try to assess how much the excitation has been attenuated between two successive singular points and thus assess at which point a new singularity may be present without affecting ride comfort. Although such assessment can be made with commercial SW packages which simulate the dynamic behavior of a vehicle considered as a set of rigid bodies interconnected with elastic elements simulating the suspension systems (such as SIMPACK, ADAMS or VAMPIRE), a simplified and user-friendly computation method (based upon the analytical solution of differential equations governing the phenomenon) is made available in this paper to track design engineers, not always used to working with full dynamic models.

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Fuzzy Patterns of Economic Valuating on the Architectural Aesthetic - Case Study of Applying the Fuzzy-Contingent Valuation Method to the Dongdaemoon Design Plaza - (건축미의 경제적 가치 퍼지패턴 분석)

  • Lee, Dong-Joo;Ko, Eun-Hyung
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the fuzzy pattern that is reflected on the inside of the value evaluator in measuring the economic value of architectural aesthetic using the fuzzy-contingent valuation method. The main results of analyzing the relationship between architectural aesthetic and fuzzy patterns by typing 307 fuzzy patterns collected from visitors at Dongdaemun Design Plaza are as follows: First, low levels of architectural aesthetic can be a primary cause of extreme refusal of payment. However, it was confirmed that the extreme refusal of payment could partially involve mentality of free-ride on public goods or mentality that would not give value to past events that are not future. Second, if the architectural aesthetic score is 77.5, the most perfect form of fuzzy pattern is formed. It is confirmed that the fuzzy form, which is the standard in the relationship between architectural aesthetic and money value, is made at 77.5 points. This means that it is most efficient to have 77.5 points of architectural aesthetic to secure balanced data by membership in the study of architectural aesthetic value measurement through fuzzy pattern. Third, according to the architectural aesthetic score, respondents can be interpreted as follows: no monetary willingness arises before or after 52.4, starts to respond to the amount before and after 65.6, severe conflict over payments around 70.6~71.7, stronger willingness to pay around 77.6, want to pay for sure around 80.0.

Characteristics and Useful Life Prediction of Rubber Spring for Railway Vehicle (전동차용 방진고무스프링 특성 및 사용수명 예측)

  • Woo, Chang-Su;Park, Hyun-Sung;Park, Dong-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.10 no.2 s.39
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    • pp.211-216
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    • 2007
  • Rubber components are widely used in many application such as vibration isolators, damping, ride quality. Rubber spring is used in primary suspension system for railway vehicle. Characteristics and useful life prediction of rubber spring was very important in design procedure to assure the safety and reliability. Non-linear properties of rubber material which are described as strain energy function are important parameter to design and evaluate of rubber spring. These are determined by physical tests which are uniaxial tension, equi-biaxial tension and pure shear test. The computer simulation was executed to predict and evaluate the load capacity and stiffness for rubber spring. In order to investigate the useful life, the acceleration test were carried out. Acceleration test results changes as the threshold are used for assessment of the useful life and time to threshold value were plotted against reciprocal of absolute temperature to give the Arrhenius plot. By using the acceleration test, several useful life prediction for rubber spring were proposed.

Vibration Contol of Automotive Suspension System using the LQG/LTR Control Methodology (LQG/LTR제어기법을 이용한 자동차 서스펜션 시스템의 진동제어)

  • Ahn, Jeong-Keun;Song, Chang-Hun;Yoo, Sam-Hyeon;Lee, Chong-Won
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.646-653
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    • 2001
  • LQG/LTR Control Methology is recently used for the analysis of multi-variable control in frequency domain. Target filter loop is designed by the demanding requirements such as cross-over frequency, disturbance rejection in low frequency domain, zero steady-state error, identification of maximum and minimum singular values and sensor noise rejection in high frequency domain. Loop transfer recovery is accomplished by solving the cheap control and then simulation close to the target filter loop. In this study, LQG/LTR Control Methodology is applied to the seat suspension system. It is found that this technique is very effective to control the system and improve the ride quality of human body.

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Evaluation of Vibration Reduction Performance of Operator Seat for Agricultural Tractors (트랙터 운전석의 진동 감쇠 성능 평가)

  • Shin, Chang-Seop;Kim, Kyeong-Uk
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • Six models of operator seat supplied to local tractor manufacturers were tested in the laboratory in accordance with ISO 5007 and 78/764/EEC. No models out of the six met the allowable damping and transmissibility performance criteria of both ISO 5007 and 78/764/EEC. From the ISO criterion standpoint, one model failed in damping performance and 4 models in isolation performance. From the 78/764/EEC criterion standpoint, 4 models failed in damping performance and 4 models in isolation performance. However none of them failed in all of the criteria, either. Each model met the one acceptance criterion but failed in another. This indicated that operator seat must be improved to meet the current ISO 5007 or 78/764/EEC and the exposure limit value that will be enforced in EU tractor market from 2014 by EU Directive 2002/44 EC.

Evaluation of mechnical preoperties of vibration damping steel sheets and their application to automobile engine oil pan (제진강판의 기계적 특성평가와 자동차오일팬으로의 적용)

  • 정재환;민병두;하용철
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 1994.06a
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    • pp.99-118
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    • 1994
  • In recent years reduction in noise and vibration in automobile has been strongly required not only from the standpoint of environmental regulations but also for raising the commercial value and ride comfort. Vibration damping steel sheets, which are composites made by sandwitching a visco-elastic resin layer between two steel sheets, have been developed as effective noise-abating materials and have found a growth of use in automobile industries. Vibration damping steel sheets for commercial use must be excellent in vibration damping property, press formability and spot weldability, but are inferior to ordinary steel sheets. In this study, the mechanical properties of vibration damping steel are evaluated, and press formability is analysed on the basis of those properties and shear bonding strength. The development of engine oil pan using damping steel sheets are also reported, focusing on serious problems in oil pan drawing.

An Acquisition and Analysis Equipment of Dynamic/Static Data on a Rotating Vibration (회전체 진동 데이터의 AC/DC 성분 데이터 획득 및 분석 장치)

  • Lee, Jung Suk;Ryu, Deung Ryeol;Lee, Cheol
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.127-137
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    • 2009
  • This paper is proposed that in-output Digital module is acquired a vibration signal of a rotating machinery by Data Acquisition System. The module is designed to get ride of nose through low pass filter on the vibration signal from sensors and set the gain value for being able to sampling AC to DC, and also the sampled data by sampler and the conversed data by DIP/FPGA is supplied to the analyzer for analysis at a software tool. The DIP(Digital Signal Processor) of the Digital input/output Board makes Average voltage, Peak to Peak voltage, RMS(Root Mean Square) and Gap voltage, also FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) for rotating vibration diagnosis.

Suspension Characteristics Design and Stability Analysis for an Articulated Bogie Type of Light Rail Vehicle (관절형 경량전철의 현가특성 설계 및 안정성 해석)

  • Hur, S.;Park, C.K.;Ha, S.D.;Han, H.S.
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1998.05a
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    • pp.540-547
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    • 1998
  • light rail vehicle is modeled as a 2 d. o. f linear system for the design of vertical suspension characteristics and a 4 d. o. f. linear system for the design of lateral suspension characteristics. FRA's class-5-track irregularity is used for the exciting disturbance on track. Suspension stiffness and damping is selected on the basis of the ride quality and suspension stroke trade-off for the bogie of light rail vehicle. The optimum value of primary and secondary suspension characteristics is determined. And the stability of full vehicle model for the LRV is analyzed using the VAMPIRE program and critical speed is determined.

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Evaluation of Characteristics and Useful Life of Rubber Spring for Railway Vehicle

  • Woo, Chang-Su;Park, Hyun-Sung;Park, Dong-Chul
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.122-127
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    • 2008
  • Rubber components are widely used in many application such as vibration isolators, damping, ride quality. Rubber spring is used in primary suspension system for railway vehicle. Characteristics and useful life prediction of rubber spring was very important in design procedure to assure the safety and reliability. Non-linear properties of rubber material which are described as strain energy function are important parameter to design and evaluate of rubber spring. These are determined by physical tests which are uniaxial tension, equi-biaxial tension and pure shear test. The computer simulation was executed to predict and evaluate the load capacity and stiffness for rubber spring. In order to investigate the useful life, the acceleration test were carried out. Acceleration test results changes as the threshold are used for assessment of the useful life and time to threshold value were plotted against reciprocal of absolute temperature to give the Arrhenius plot. By using the acceleration test, several useful life prediction for rubber spring were proposed.

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Vertical Vibration Analysis of a Magnetically Levitated Vehicle due to Random Track Disturbances and Dynamic Design of Its Secondary Suspensions (불규칙 궤도외란을 받는 자기부상열차의 진동해석 및 2차현가장치 동적설계)

  • Choe, Yeong-Hyu;Heo, Sin;Kim, Yu-Il
    • 연구논문집
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    • s.22
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 1992
  • A dynamic design process was proposed for the design of the secondary suspension characteristics of a magnetically levitated vehicle(MAGLEV). It is based on a ride quality-secondary stroke trade-off. For the vertical vibration analysis, a magnetically levitated vehicle was simplified as 2 d.o.f. linear model, and FRA's class-6-track irregularities were considered as exciting disturbances. The optimum value of airspring stiffness and damping coefficient for the secondary suspension of a prototype MAGLEV was determined using this proposed design process.

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