• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2004

The end-effector is the one of the important factors on development of the cucumber robot to harvester a cucumber. Three end-effectors were designed the single blade end-effector with one blade, the double blade end-effector with two blades and the triple blade end-effector with three blades. Performance tests of the end-effector, the fully integrated system, were conducted to determine the cutting rate by using two different kinds of cucumber. The success rates of cucumber cutting ratio of single end-effector, double end-effector and triple end-effector in laboratory. were 61.7%, 95%, 86.7%, respectively. The cutting rate of single blade or double blade was a little difference with respect to the different diameters of cucumber stem. However, the success cutting rate of the end-effector with triple blade was 61.7% under 29mm diameter of a grabbing stem section. The triple end-effector was not suitable for harvesting a cucumber, but was considered to be suitable for harvesting a grape, an apple and a tomato. The success rate of cucumber cutting ratio of triple end-effectors in greenhouse was 84%. The failure cutting rate was 16% which are due to abnormal shape of cucumber fruit.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2015

This paper presents a study on Vane Tidal Turbine (VTT) focusing on analysis of two types of blade arrangement originated from the previous studies where the original design was examined and performance-tested for different numbers of blades (six, eight and twelve). Compared to conventional tidal turbines, VTT has several special features and potential advantages which have been being thoroughly developed. The purpose of this study is to analyze VTT's capability of extracting and converting the hydrokinetic energy of tidal currents into electricity at given arrangement of blades (single and double rows, six and twelve blades) using CFD. From the calculation results, the six-blade single row turbine shows the best performance, in which the highest power and torque coefficients reach up to about 34 % and 36 %, respectively, at TSR=0.94. However, despite of lower power coefficient, by adding more blades, the torque's extraction of twelve-blade turbine, especially the double row type, is less fluctuate than that of the six-blade setups.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.625-632
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• 2005

This paper describes the shape optimization of a stator blade in a single-stage transonic axial compressor. The blade optimization has been performed using response surface method and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes analysis. Two shape variables of the stator blade, which are used to define a stacking line, are introduced to increase an adiabatic efficiency. Data points for response evaluations have been selected by D-optimal design, and linear programming method has been used for an optimization on a response surface. Throughout the shape optimization of a stator blade, the adiabatic efficiency is increased to 5.8 percent compared to that of the reference shape of the stator. The increase of the efficiency is mainly caused by the pressure enhancement in the stator blade. Flow separation on the blade suction surface of the stator is also improved by optimizing the stator blade. It is noted that the optimization of the stator blade is also useful method to increase the adiabatic efficiency in the axial compressor as well as the optimization of a rotor blade, which is widely used now.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.7-13
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• 2006

Shape optimization of a rotor blade in a single-stage transonic axial compressor has been performed using a response surface method and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes analysis. Two shape variables of the rotor blade, which are used to define a blade skew, are introduced to increase an adiabatic efficiency. Throughout the shape optimization of a rotor blade, the adiabatic efficiency is increased to about 2.2 percent compared to that of the reference shape of the stator. The increase in efficiency for the optimal shape of the rotor is due to the pressure enhancement, which is mainly caused by moving the separation position on the suction surface of rotor blade to the downstream direction.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.245-252
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• 2010

It's known that pump head of centrifugal impeller with lager blade outlet angle is kept higher in air-water two phase flow condition, though the efficiency in water single phase flow condition is inferior. In the present study, a centrifugal impeller with variable blade outlet angles, that has higher efficiencies in both water single phase flow and air-water two phase flow conditions, is proposed. And the performances of the centrifugal impeller with variable blade outlet angles were experimentally investigated in both flow conditions of single and two-phase. In addition, effects of installing diffuser vanes on the performances of centrifugal pump with movable bladed impeller were also examined. The results are as follows: (1) The movable bladed impeller that proposed in this study is effective for higher efficiency in both water single phase and air-water two phase flow conditions. (2) When diffuser vanes are installed, the efficiency of movable bladed impeller decreases particularly at large water flow rate in water single-phase flow condition; (3) The performances of movable bladed impeller are improved by installing of diffuser vanes in air-water two-phase flow condition at relatively small water rate. The improvement by installing of diffuser vanes however disappears at large water flow rate.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.264-269
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• 1984

단면(單面)의 로우터리 경운(耕耘)날이 양면(兩面)보다 경운소요(耕耘所要)토오크를 절감(節減)시키는 데 효과적(效果的)이란 결과(結果)에 대(對)하여는 앞서의 연구(硏究)에서 보고(報告)한 바 있으며, 본(本) 연구(硏究)는 경운작업(耕耘作業)에 의(依)한 날의 마모과정중(磨耗過程中) 양(兩), 단면(單面) 형상(形狀)의 경운(耕耘)날이 경운소요(耕耘所要)토오크의 절감효과(節減效果)가 지속(持續)되는가를 구명(究明)하기 위(爲)하여 포장실험(圃場實驗)을 실시(實施)하였다. 양(兩), 단면(單面)의 공시(供試)날은 동일(同一) 로우터리 축(軸)에 부착(附着)시켜 미경운토양(未耕耘土壤)에서 포장작업(圃場作業)을 실시(實施)하여 매(每) 3시간(時間)마다 마모량(磨耗量)을 측정(測定)하였으며, 계량(計量)한 날의 경운소요(耕耘所要)토오크는 실험실(實驗室)에서 Soil bin system 을 이용(利用)하여 측정(測定)하였으며, 분석(分析) 결과(結果)를 요약(要約)하면 다음과 같다. 1. 로우터리 경운작업(耕耘作業)을 실시(實施)하는 동안 날의 단면형상(斷面形狀)의 원형(原形)은 변화(變化)하지 않았으며, 단면(單面)인 날이 양면(兩面)보다 전(全) 내용시간(耐用時間) 동안 최대경운소요(最大耕耘所要)토오크는 5~10%, 평균경운소요(平均耕耘所要)토오크는 3~15% 절감(節減)하는 것으로 분석(分析)되었다. 2. 일반적(一般的)으로, 경운소요(耕耘所要)토오크는 경운(耕耘)날의 형상(形狀)이 유지(維持)되는 12시간(時間)까지는 감소(減少)하였으나, 그 후(後)에는 날의 tip형상(形狀)의 변형(變形)에 의(依)하여 증가(增加)하는 것으로 나타났다. 이것은 날의 tip형상(形狀)이 경운소요(耕耘所要)토오크에 영향(影響)을 미치는 요인(要因)이라고 분석(分析)할 수 있으며, 이에 대(對)한 연구(硏究)는 계속(繼續)되어져야 할 것으로 사료(思料)된다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.861-864
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• 1997

Singulation is a process that cutting for separating a chip individually after finishing packaging process(micro BGA etc.). For shortening the process of singulation, we proposed the singulation using multi-blade. This paper introduced a method of multi-blade singulation and investigated a result of application and problems. The efficiency of singulation process was improved five times better than the single-blade by the singulation using Multi-blade.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2000년도 춘계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.73-77
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• 2000

Small-sized fans for cooling electronic components are usually produced by injection molding in unified form including blade and hub. However, in case of middle and large-sized fans, they deal ill various products with varied numbers of blade or stagger angles after designing a single blade by molding or aluminum die casting. At this occasion, it is necessary to study design method for high-performance axial fans can be operated with various numbers of blades or stagger angle using unique blade for specified conditions. Therefore, the goal in this study is developing a optimal design method which improves performance of axial fans within the large range of operating by single blade.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.431-440
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• 2019

The aim of this study was to explore the influence of structure coupling effect on structural damping of blade based on the blade vibration characteristic. For this purpose, the scaled blade model of NREL 5 MW offshore wind turbine was processed and employed in the wind tunnel test to validate the reliability of theoretical and numerical models. The attenuation curves of maximum displacement and the varying curves of equivalent damping coefficient of the blade under the rated condition were respectively compared and analyzed by constructing single blade model and whole machine model. The attenuation law of blade dynamic response was obtained and the structure coupling effect was proved to exert a significant influence on the equivalent damping coefficient. The results indicate that the attenuation trend of the maximum displacement response curve of the single blade varies more obviously with the increase of elastic modulus as compared to that under the structure coupling effect. In contrast to the single blade model, the varying curve of equivalent damping coefficient with the period is relatively steep for the whole machine model. The findings are of great significance to guide the structure design and material selection for wind turbine blades.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.261-264
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• 1997

A single action press robot, which consists of a driving unit, rotator, up-down feed base and feed bar, is developed and applied for the press automation. The driving unit is made up with a face cam and blade cam, which have a phase angle. The feeding system consists of a double speed-up apparatus and linear motion guides, and has a fast motion characteristics. A horizontal feeding speed of the feed bar is increased twice by the double speed-up apparatus. The driving mechanism could be simplified due to the speed-up of the feeding unit.