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A Study on the Improvement of the Separation Phenomenon of Coolant Hose in the Tracked Combat Vehicle (전투차량 냉각수 호스 분리현상 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Tae-Woo;Shin, Hun-Yong;Ryu, Jeong-Min;Park, Kyung-Chul;Kim, Jae-Kyu;Lee, Hun-kee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2018
  • In general, tracked combat vehicles require excellent output performance of a power unit system to drive on special terrains and in extreme environmental conditions. However, high temperature and pressure are readily applied to the coolant hose in the power unit of the vehicles during high-speed driving under extreme road and weather conditions. These driving conditions can cause the separation phenomenon of the coolant hose in the power unit and consequentially engine overheating during driving. Therefore, a newly designed decompression device for the coolant hose has been proposed and manufactured to solve these problems in the present study. To validate of the newly proposed decompression device, the input and output pressures were measured under the before- and after-improvement conditions using experimental methods for different engine RPMs. In addition, the pre-heater temperature was measured under both conditions. From the experimental results, we expect that the current investigation can help to improve the driving performance of tracked combat vehicles.

Development of Cold Forging Process of Hollow-type Wheel Nut Wrench for Commercial Vehicles (상용차용 중공형 휠 너트 렌치의 냉간단조 공정 개발)

  • Kim, H.S.;Youn, J.W.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.493-498
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    • 2012
  • A wheel nut wrench is one of the hand tools used to loosen and tighten lug nuts on automobile wheels and it has generally a solid-type geometry for commercial vehicles. However, the solid-type wheel nut wrenches manufactured by hot forging processes exhibit several drawbacks such as heavy weight and rough surface finish. Thus, many efforts have been devoted to change the part geometry and improve the manufacturing process. For this purpose, the weight of the final product can be reduced drastically using a hollow tube as the initial stock, which can be manufactured by the more economical manufacturing process of cold forging. In this study, the cold forging of a hollow-type wheel nut wrench for commercial vehicles was designed based on the results of fundamental experiments and CAE analyses using the commercial finite element code DEFORM-3D. In addition, cold forging experiments were conducted on a special-purpose forming machine for hollow wheel nut wrenches in order to validate the designed process sequence. As results, it was found that the final products with a weight reduction of 39% and better surface appearance can be manufactured without any defect with the newly designed cold forging process.

A Novel Stator Hybrid Excited Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet Brushless Machine for Electric Vehicles

  • Zhu Xiaoyong;Cheng Ming
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.185-191
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a novel stator hybrid excited doubly salient permanent magnet (SHEDS-PM) brushless machine with a special magnetic bridge is proposed for the first time. The originality of this machine is purposely to add a magnetic bridge in shunt with each PM pole, which not only maintains the stator lamination in its entireness, but also amplifies the effect of DC field flux on PM flux. An equivalent magnetic circuit is presented to clarify the novelty. Based on the 2-D finite element analysis, the static characteristics of the SHEDS-PM machine, namely phase flux linkage, back-EMF, cogging torque, winding inductance and static torque are deduced. The corresponding results on a prototype machine illustrate that the proposed machine is promising for application to electric vehicles.

Real-time Vehicle License Plate Recognition Method using Vehicle-loaded Camera (차량 탑재용 카메라를 이용한 실시간 차량 번호판 인식 기법)

  • Chang, Jae-Khun
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.147-158
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    • 2005
  • Day after day the information of vehicle under the complex traffic environments is greatly required not only for traffic flow but also for vehicle disclosure of traffic violation, Vehicle information can be obtained from a recognition of vehicle license plate, This paper proposes a new vehicle plate recognition mechanism that uses moving style vehicle-loaded camera, The method is a real-time processing system using multi-step image processing and recognition process that recognizes general vehicles and special purpose vehicles, The experimental results of real environmental image and recognition using the proposed method are shown.

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Positioning idle vehicles of AGVS on unidirectional guide paths (단방향 유도경로AGVS상의 유휴차량 대기위치 결정)

  • Kim, Jae-Yeon;Kim, Kap-Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.77-93
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    • 1998
  • It is discussed how to locate idle vehicles of AGVS on unidirectional guide paths. The problem is modeled as a median location problem on a cyclic network. The characteristics of the optimal location are analyzed and some useful properties are suggested to reduce the solution space. Based on the properties found, several special types of networks - a pure single-loop type, the loop type with a single branching intersection and the loop type with local branching node - are also analyzed as well as the general cyclic network. In each case of the networks, a solution procedure is suggested. Some numerical examples are provided to illustrate the algorithms developed.

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Optimization of Passenger Transportation Problem (승객 수송 문제의 최적화)

  • Park, Jun-Hyuk;Kim, Byung-In;Kim, Seong-Bae;Sahoo, Surya
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.139-146
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we present the study of a real passenger transportation system. Passenger transportation problem aims to transport passengers from bus stops to their destinations by a fleet of vehicles while satisfying various constraints such as vehicle capacity, maximum allowable riding time in a bus, and time windows at destinations. Our problem also has special issues such as mixed loading, consideration of afternoon problem together with morning problem, and transferring passengers between vehicles. Our solution approach consists of three serial procedures: bus route generation, bus scheduling, and post optimization. Efficient heuristic algorithms were developed and implemented for the procedures. The proposed solution approach has been successfully applied to several real world problem instances and could reduce about 10% to 15% of buses.

Wireless Traffic Light using Artificial Intelligence

  • Hong, You-Sik;Kim, Chong-Soo;Kim, Chang-Kyun
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.251-257
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we wish to construct a optimal traffic cycle using wire remote control. if police vehicle or ambulance suddenly enter the traffic Intersection, it will increase the traffic accident. In this paper, wireless traffic light use the radio traffic control signal and research about the hardware manufacture to check special detectors on urgency vehicles may safety and rapidly enter traffic intersection. Also, this paper present a traffic signal control conditions that analyzes different traffic intersection flows in cases of saturated flows, where the real traffic volume demand is large and the capacity constraints of bottlenecks have significant effects on the flow patterns. Through computer simulation this wireless traffic light has been proven to be much more safety and efficient than fixed traffic signal light which does not consider emergency vehicles for safety escort.

Wireless Traffic Signal Light using Fuzzy Rules

  • Hong YouSik;Lu Wei-Ming;Yi JaeYoung;Yi CheonHee
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.365-370
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we wish to construct a optimal traffic cycle using wire remote control. if police vehicle or ambulance suddenly enter the traffic intersection, it will increase the traffic accident. In this paper, wireless traffic light use the radio traffic control signal and research about the hardware manufacture to check special detectors on urgency vehicles may safety and rapidly enter traffic intersection. Also, this paper present a traffic signal control conditions that analyzes different traffic intersection flows in cases of saturated flows, where the real traffic volume demand is large and the capacity constraints of bottlenecks have significant effects on the flow patterns. Through computer simulation this wireless traffic light has been proven to be much more safety and efficient than fixed traffic signal light which does not considering emergency vehicles for safety escort.

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A study of Heat Analysis on Track Rubber Parts (궤도고무부품의 열해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 1999
  • Track rubber parts has heat built-up as long as dynamic loading is applied from running tracked vehicles. Durability is required for rubber part to sustain the heat accumulation and heat exchange between rubber-metal assembly and environmental air and ground. For this research, the track assembly was divided into four parts i.e., bottom track shoe, upper track pad, pin busing and metal structure. Three rubber parts and metal structure were modelled and analyzed with MARC package program to obtain time-temperature data which was induced form mechanical work of tracked vehicles. heat accumulation data was obtained from special experiments under the room temperature of 25$^{\circ}C\;and\;35^{\circ}C$ to simulate the actual environmental conditions. From this research, it is cleared that the environmental temperature does not affect to the heat accumulation speed in rubber parts. Also, the heat built-up mechanism was clarified from the thermo-mechanical work based on numerical analysis and experiments.

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A Development of Green Transportation Design for Special Identity of Jecheon Area - centered on Exterior Design for Development of Design Business - (제천지역의 특성화를 위한 친환경운송수단 디자인개발 - 디자인비즈니스 개발을 위한 익스테리어 디자인을 중심으로 -)

  • Mun Keum-Hi
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.4 s.66
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    • pp.175-186
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    • 2006
  • In the 21C, each nation controls exhaust fumes from automobiles and makes an effort to develop alternative energy because of serious environmental problem. Jechon area has many historical and cultural archeological sites. And Jechon city sponsors various cultural events. But the way of transportation which is connected with Jecheon and around sightseeing places is general and not ready yet. Therefore, if a special means of vehicle is developed, it could play an another role of sightseeing resources. Special identity of Jecheon area for establishment of green vehicle traffic system which gives Jecheon area specific character was investigated for theoretical background. Traffic system was studied for establishment of direction through existent successful case study. Moreover content, method, structure and advantage & shortcoming etc. of vehicle that use green energy resource such as solar car, fuel cell car, hybrid car, natural gas car etc. were examined. The suitable means of vehicle for Jechon area was proposed to three directions with research and investigation. After comparison and investigation by inquiry of each section's experts, the most suitable traffic system of which energy resource of car, form of vehicles, the complement, dimension of vehicles etc. were decided. Design proposal should be drawn according to process of automobile design in decided direction. Special Exterior design of vehicle that use green energy resource connecting Jecheon and around area should be suggested in Jecheon City Hall and Chungchong-bukdo provincial office for vivify image of cleanliness area.

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