• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.1496-1502
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• 2002

An Altitude Engine Test Facility(AETF) was built at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in October 1999 and has been being operated for altitude testing of gas turbine engines of 3,000 Ibf class or less. The AETF has been calibrated using several engines such as J69 of Teledyne Co. as a facility checkout engine. Uncertainty analyses on the air flow rate and thrust were performed using the test results, according to ASME PTC 19.1-1998. Several modifications on the facility and test method were made in order to improve the measurement uncertainty to a satisfactory level over the whole operating envelop. Spatial distributions of pressure and temperature were measured, sensors were substituted by more accurate ones, inlet duct was modified to refine the flow quality, and pressure control logic was revised to remove the cell pressure fluctuation. As a result, the uncertainty of the air flow measurement was improved by 0.1% over all the test conditions, and the net thrust measurement by up to 3%. The improved measurement uncertainties of air flow and thrust are 0.68～O.73% and 0.4～1.3%, respectively.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

The head thrust maneuver is a simple bedside test of the higher frequency vestibulo-ocular reflex, which is based on Ewald's second law. It is performed by grasping the patient's head and applying a brief, small-amplitude, high-acceleration head turn, first to one side and then to the other. The patient fixates on the examiner's nose and the examiner watches for corrective rapid eye movements (saccades), which are a sign of decreased vestibular response. The "catch-up" saccades after a head thrust in one direction indicate a peripheral vestibular lesion on that side (in the labyrinth or the $8^{th}$ nerve including the root's entry zone in the brain stem). An individual pair of vertical semicircular canals can also be stimulated by turning the head to the right or left by $45^{\circ}$ and then by rotating the head in the pitch plane relative to the body. Recent studies have suggested that assessment of individual semicircular canal function by head thrust test may provide useful information for anatomical and functional details of a variety of peripheral vestibulopathies and for predicting the prognosis of vestibular neuritis. In central vestibulopathy, the head thrust test may also be valuable sign to determine dysfunction of the central pathways from individual semicircular canals and its role for the development of diverse central nystagmus.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.26-37
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• 2011

30톤급 액체로켓엔진 연소기의 개발 기술을 바탕으로 75톤급 기술검증용 내열재 연소기를 제작하였다. 내열재 연소기의 수력학적 특성은 저유량 조건의 수류시험과 점화시험을 통해 점검하였고, 시험결과 수력학적 기능이 양호함을 보여 주었다. 정적조건의 작동성 측면에서 점화링을 이용한 측면 점화방식 역시 적합한 점화기능을 보여 주었다. 그러나 동특성 측면에서 나타나는 특정 주파수의 생성 및 소멸 현상을 이해하기 위한 면밀한 검토가 요구된다. 이를 위해서는 75톤급 연소기의 정격조건에서 연소 시험이 가능한 대형 연소시험설비가 조속히 구축되어야 할 것이다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.332-341
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• 2020

High-speed turbomachinery implements gas foil bearings (GFBs) due to their distinctive advantages, such as high efficiency, lesser part count, and lower weight. This paper provides the test results of the static structural stiffnesses and loss factors of bump-type foil thrust bearings with increasing preload and bearing deflection. The focus of the current work is to experimentally quantify variability in structural stiffnesses and loss factors among the four test thrust bearings with identical design values and material of the bump and top foil geometries using the same (open-source) fabrication method. A simple test setup, using a rigidly mounted non-rotating shaft and thrust disk, measures the bearing bump deflections with increasing static loads on the test bearing. The inner and outer diameters of the test bearings are 41 mm and 81 mm, respectively. The loss factor, best-representing energy dissipation in the test bearings, is estimated from the area inside the local hysteresis loop of the load versus the bearing deflection curve. The measurements show that structural stiffnesses and loss factors of the test bearings significantly rely on applied preloads and bearing deflections. Local structural stiffnesses of the test bearings increase with applied preloads but decrease with bearing deflections. Changes of loss factors are less sensitive to applied preloads and bearing deflections compared to those of structural stiffnesses. Up to 35% variability in static load structural stiffnesses is found between bearings, while up to 30% variability in loss factors is found between bearings.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2015

Gas foil thrust bearings (GFTBs) have attractive advantages over rolling element bearings and oil film thrust bearings, such as oil-free operation, high speed stability, and high-temperature operation. However, GFTBs have lower load carrying capacity than the other two types of bearings owing to the inherent low gas viscosity. The load carrying capacity of GFTBs depends mainly on the compliance of the foil structure and the formed hydrodynamic wedge, where the gas pressure field is generated between the top foil and the thrust runner. The load carrying capacity of the GFTBs is very important for the suitable design of oil-free turbomachinery with high performance. The aim of the present study is to identify the characteristics of the load carrying performance of GFTBs. A new test rig for the experimental measurements is designed to provide static loads up to 800 N using a pneumatic cylinder. The maximum operating speed of the driving motor is 30,000 rpm. A series of experimental tests—lift-off test, static load performance test, and maximum load capacity test—estimate the performance of a six-pad GFTB, in terms of the static load, driving torque, and temperature. The maximum load capacity is determined by increasing the static load until the driving torque rises suddenly with a sharp peak. The test results show that the torque and temperature increase linearly with the static load. The estimated maximum load capacity per unit area is approximately 80.5 kPa at a rotor speed of 25,000 rpm. The test results can be used as a design guideline for GFTBs for realizing oil-free turbomachinery.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집D
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• pp.777-781
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• 2001

An Altitude Engine Test Facility(AETF) was built at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in October 1999 and has been being operated for altitude testing of the gas turbine engines of 3,000 Ibf class or less. The AETF has been calibrated using several engines such as J69 engine of Teledyne Co. as a facility checkout engine. Based on the test results, uncertainty analyses on the air flow rate and thrust were performed according to ASME PTC 19.1-1998. As the analyses showed that the level of uncertainty was not satisfactory over the whole operating envelop, several modifications of the facility and testing method were made in order to improve the measurement uncertainty. As a result, the uncertainty of the air flow measurement was improved by 0.1 % over all the test conditions, and the net thrust measurement by upto 3%. The improved measurement uncertainties of air flow and thrust are 0.68-0.73% and 0.4-1.3%, respectively.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2011

액체산소와 케로신을 사용하는 액체로켓엔진 연소기의 성능평가를 위한 가압식 연소시험설비의 구성 요구조건에 대해 기술하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 가압식 연소시험설비의 요구조건들은 KSR-III 및 30톤급 액체로켓엔진 연소기의 자력개발 과정에서 활용된 지상연소시험장 구축과 운용 경험을 바탕으로 도출된 것이다. 따라서 본 논문은 대형 연소시험설비의 설계 및 시공을 위한 사전 검토 내역 및 기본 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2010년도 제35회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.63-71
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• 2010

액체산소와 케로신을 사용하는 액체로켓엔진 연소기의 성능평가를 위한 가압식 연소시험설비의 구성 요구조건에 대해 기술하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 가압식 연소시험설비의 요구조건들은 KSR-III 및 30톤급 액체로켓엔진 연소기의 자력개발 과정에서 활용된 지상연소시험장 구축과 운용 경험을 바탕으로 도출된 것이다. 따라서 본 논문은 대형 연소시험설비의 설계 및 시공을 위한 사전 검토 내역 및 기본 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2010년도 제34회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.25-28
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• 2010

한국항공우주연구원에서는 30톤급 액체로켓엔진 연소기 개발 기술을 바탕으로 설계 제작된 75톤급 기술검증시제의 수류시험 및 점화시험을 수행하였다. 수류시험을 통해 시험설비 공급라인의 수력학적 특성 및 냉각 케로신 충전시간을 파악하였다. 수류시험 결과로 점화절차를 결정하여, 점화시험을 성공적으로 수행하였다. 점화시험을 통해 획득한 자료와 시험 기법은 향 후 연소시험을 위해 활용될 것이다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.76-80
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• 2023

This paper describes an experimental investigation of the effect of cooling flow rate on gas foil thrust bearing (GFTB) performance. In a newly developed GFTB test rig, a non-contact type pneumatic cylinder provides static loads to the test GFTB and a high-speed motor rotates a thrust runner up to the maximum speed of 80 krpm. Force sensor, torque arm connected to another force sensor, and thermocouples measures the applied static load, drag torque, and bearing temperature, respectively, for cooling flow rates of 0, 25, and 50 LPM at static loads of 50, 100, and 150 N. The test GFTB with the outer radius of 31.5 mm has six top foils supported on bump foil structures. During the series of tests, the transient responses of the bearing drag torque and bearing temperature are recorded until the bearing temperature converges with time for each cooling flow rate and static load. The test data show that the converged temperature decreases with increasing cooling flow rate and increases with increasing static load. The drag torque and friction coefficient decrease with increasing cooling flow rate, which may be attributed to the decrease in viscosity and lubricant (air) temperature. These test results suggest that an increase in cooling flow rate improves GFTB performance.