• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2015

In order to protect occupant during car crash accident, Regulation and NCAP(New Car assessment Program) have been developed among various countries like U.S.A., Europe, Korea and Australia. Especially NCAP scores affect to sales of vehicles. So vehicle makers are trying to get good score in NCAP. Low leg injuries play an important role in Australia and Euro NCAP and these injuries are related with footrest design. Optimization of footrest design in early stage of vehicle development is necessary to obtain better and robust results of low legs during crash tests. In this paper, DFSS method and finite element model were used to optimize the low leg performance in small RHD vehicles. Compared with the lower leg injury of base model, the lower leg injury of proposed model was slightly improved and robustness was enhanced also.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.337-345
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• 2009

The dependence of numerous systems on electronic devices is causing rapidly increasing concern over fault tolerance because of safety issues of safety critical system. As an example, a vehicle with electronics-controlled system such as x-by-wire systems, which are replacing rigid mechanical components with dynamically configurable electronic elements, should be fault￢tolerant because a devastating failure could arise without warning. Fault-tolerant systems have been studied in detail, mainly in the field of aeronautics. As an alternative to solve these problems, this paper presents the fuzzy hybrid redundancy system that can remove most erroneous faults with fuzzy fault detection algorithm. In addition, several numerical simulation results are given where the fuzzy hybrid redundancy outperforms with general voting method.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2008

The performance of crash cushion systems is certified through the full scale crash tests by the standard for installation and maintenance guidelines for roadside safety appurtenance. The impact severities of impacting vehicles in collision with crash cushion systems are rated by indices THIV and PHD. Crash test results are considered to study the performance of three crash cushion systems. In case of the frontal impact or the offset frontal impact, the results show that THIV values of three systems are very close to the threshold limit for the occupant protection. Also, the results show that PHD would be improper for the occupant protection performance index. In order to improve the occupant protection performance of crash cushions, ASI needs to be included in the impact severity index.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.72-80
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• 2008

In a case of an automobile collision, vehicle damage and injury of the driver and the passenger occur. The scale of the collision which is effected by the extent of vehicle damage and the injury of the passenger, depends on the delta-V. Based on the photograph interpretation o the actual case of accidents in the Seoul and the Incheon area, this study measured the depth of crush and calculated the delta-V. Through verifying the correlation of the depth of crush and the change of velocity, relative equation was evaluated and compared with the prior study results to prove that they are almost identical. Thus, the depth of crush can be used as an index of the degree of impact, which can be utilized as the change of velocity to evaluate the level of injury done to the passengers. However, the period of hospitalization and diagnostics claimed by the injured proves to have no correlation with the delta-V and the extent of vehicle damage, this is due to the non-objective way of diagnosis and the anamnesis of the injured. This study established the absolute limit harmlessness and the choosing limit harmlessness, allowing the appraisal for Yes or No of the injury or the harmlessness based on the prior studies. Moreover, utilizing the relative equation formed between the depth of crush and the delta-V, each case of collision was compared and evaluated in comparison to the limit harmlessness to prove that the 90.4% of the so-called 'claiming-to-be-injured' were exaggerating or fabricating.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.203-225
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• 2013

An analysis framework for vehicle-bridge dynamic interaction system under turbulent wind is proposed based on the relevant theory of wind engineering and dynamics. Considering the fluctuating properties of wind field, the stochastic wind velocity time history is simulated by the Auto-Regressive method in terms of power spectral density function of wind field. The bridge is represented by three-dimensional finite element model and the vehicle by a multi-rigid-body system connected by springs and dashpots. The detailed calculation formulas of unsteady aerodynamic forces on bridge and vehicle are derived. In addition, the form selection of wind barriers, which are applied as the windbreak measures of newly-built railways in northwest China, is studied based on the suggested evaluation index, and the suitable values about height and porosity rate of wind barriers are studied. By taking a multi-span simply-supported box-girder bridge as a case study, the dynamic response of the bridge and the running safety indices of the train traveling on the bridge with and without wind barriers are calculated. The limit values of train speed with respect to different wind velocities are proposed according to the allowance values in the design code.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.348-353
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• 2005

In designing the structures of railway rolling stocks, deterministic methods associated with the concept of a safety factor have been traditionally used. The deterministic approaches based on the mean values of applied loads and material properties have been used as safety verification for the design of rolling-stock car body structures. The uncertainties in the applied loading for the high speed train and the strength of new materials in the rolling stocks require the application of probabilistic approaches to ensure fatigue safety in the desired system. Pressure loadings acting on the car body when the train passes through tunnels show reflected pressure waves for high-speed trains and they may cause a fatigue failure in vehicle bodies. Use of new material technology as body structures also introduces uncertainties in the material strength. A probabilistic approach is more adaptable in designing reliable structures when the pressure waves from the tunnels pounds and new material technology is adopted. In this paper, it is proposed that a fatigue design and assessment method based on a reliability which deals with the loading variations on a railway vehicle due to the pressure reflected in tunnels and the strength variations of material. Equation for the fatigue reliability index has been formulated to calculate the reliability assessment of a vehicle body under fluctuating pressure loadings in a tunnel. Considered in this formulation are the pressure distribution characteristics, the fatigue strength distribution characteristics, and the concept of stress-transfer functions due to the pressure loading.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

The current test methods are insufficient to evaluate and ensure the safety and reliability of vehicle system for all possible dynamic situation including the worst case such as rollover, spin-out and so on. Although the known NHTSA J-turn and Fish-hook steering maneuvers are applied for the vehicle performance assessment, they aren't enough to estimate other possible worst case scenarios. Therefore, it is crucial for us to verify the various worst cases including the existing severe steering maneuvers. This paper includes the procedure to search for other useful worst case based upon the existing worst case scenarios mentioned above and its application in simulation basis. The only human steering angle is selected as a design parameter here and optimized to maximize the index function to be expressed in terms of either roll angle or yaw rate. The obtained scenarios were enough to generate the worst case to meet NHTSA worst case definition (ex.2-inch wheel lift). Additionally, as an application, the worst case steering maneuver is acquired for the vehicle to operate with a simple ESP system. It has been concluded that the new procedure in this paper is adequate to create other feasible worst case scenarios for a vehicle system both with an intelligent safety control system and without it.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.127-133
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• 2003

For the purpose of evaluation the damage repairability of a Frame Type Passenger vehicle which experienced a Low Speed 40% Offset front and rear Crash Test. tests were made according to the RCAR testing procedures. Test results concluded ; (1) The deceleration at C.G(center of gravity) off 6.9∼11.39 was similar to that for the vehicle. The airbag system was found to affect neither the passenger's safety nor the savings of the repairing costs. (2) In order to improve the repairability of the Frame Type Passenger vehicle after collision should be a higher crash performance of the bumper on the RCAR standards.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.42-60
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• 2024

본 연구는 자율주행 차량이 혼재된 교통류의 안전성 평가에 적합한 안전성 지표를 선정하여 차량 추종 조합별 안전성을 분석하였다. 고속도로 엇갈림구간은 기본구간에 비해 차로 변경이 빈번하여 상충 빈도가 높은 구간으로, 일반 차량과 자율주행 차량의 주행행태 차이로 인한 위험이 증가할 것으로 예상하여 고속도로 엇갈림구간을 분석구간으로 설정하였다. 미시적 교통 시뮬레이션인 VISSIM을 활용하여 분석을 수행하였으며, 혼합 교통류의 환경은 본선-연결로 형태의 엇갈림구간을 300, 600m의 길이로 구분하고, IDM을 활용하여 자율주행 차량의 주행행태를 구현하였다. 혼합 교통류 평가에 적합한 안전성 지표는 운전자가 체감하는 위험도와 유사하게 위험 수준을 나타내는 것을 기준으로 4개의 지표를 선정하였다. 선정된 4개 지표의 위험 기준을 넘는 차량 추종 궤적을 대상으로 안전성을 분석한 결과, 자율주행 차량이 자율주행 차량을 추종하는 상황이 가장 안전한 추종 쌍이며, 인간 운전자 차량이 자율주행 차량을 추종할 경우가 가장 위험한 추종 쌍인 것으로 나타났다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.53-62
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• 2011

본 연구는 운수업체에 대한 안전관리 시행에 따른 교통사고 감소효과 분석을 목적으로 수행되었다. 이를 위해 운수업체에 대한 안전관리 시행 전 후 비교 및 비교대상그룹과의 교통사고지수 변화량의 차이를 분석하였고, 안전관리를 통한 순수한 시행효과 분석을 위해 운수업체의 교통사고 사고지수 변화 트렌드 및 평균회귀량을 산출하여 제거해주는 방법을 이용하였다. 본 연구결과를 종합해 보면, 운수업체에 대한 안전관리는 전반적으로 운수업체의 교통사고예방에 기여효과가 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 효과는 안전관리 강도별, 운수업체 규모별로는 차이가 있는 반면 업종별로는 유의한 차이를 나타내지 않았고, 이들 조합에 따른 상호간 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 향후 운수업체에 대한 안전관리의 효율성을 높이기 위해서는 안전관리방식의 동일한 적용이 아닌 업체규모와 연계한 안전관리방식의 개발 및 적용이 필요하다.