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Engineering Model Design and Implementation Proto Flight Model of Reaction Wheel Assembly Interface Unit for STSAT-2 (과학기술위성 2호 Reaction Wheel Assembly Interface Unit Proto Flight Model 개발)

  • Kim, Se-Il;Gang, Gyeong-In;Lee, Seong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.88-92
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    • 2006
  • Proto Flight Model of Reaction Wheel Assembly Interface Unit(RIU) for STSAT-2 was developed. The RIU of STSAT2 has three major functions for interface between satellite system and RWAs. It has switches for RWA main power, communication Mux. and communication line driver.

Fracture Toughness of Wheelset for High Speed Train on the Critical Locations (임계위치에서의 고속철도용 윤축의 파괴인성)

  • Kwon Seok-Jin,
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.865-871
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    • 2004
  • The safety evaluations of railway wheel sets make use of the static fracture toughness obtained in ingot materials. The static fracture toughness of wheelset materials has been extensively studied by experiments, but the dynamic fracture toughness with respect to wheel set materials has not been studied enough yet. It is necessary to evaluate the characteristics of the fracture mechanics depending on each location for a full-scale wheel set for high-speed trains, because the load state for each location of the wheel set while running is different the contact load between the wheel and rail, cyclic stress in the wheel plate, etc. This paper deals with the fracture toughness depend on load rates. The fracture toughness depending on load rate data shows that once the downward curve from quasi-static values was reached, subsequent values showed a slow increase with respect to the impact velocity. This means that dynamic fracture toughness should be considered in the design code of the wheelset material.

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A Computational Efficient General Wheel-Rail Contact Detection Method

  • Pombo Joao;Ambrosio Jorge
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.spc1
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    • pp.411-421
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    • 2005
  • The development and implementation of an appropriate methodology for the accurate geometric description of track models is proposed in the framework of multibody dynamics and it includes the representation of the track spatial geometry and its irregularities. The wheel and rail surfaces are parameterized to represent any wheel and rail profiles obtained from direct measurements or design requirements. A fully generic methodology to determine, online during the dynamic simulation, the coordinates of the contact points, even when the most general three dimensional motion of the wheelset with respect to the rails is proposed. This methodology is applied to study specific issues in railway dynamics such as the flange contact problem and lead and lag contact configurations. A formulation for the description of the normal contact forces, which result from the wheel-rail interaction, is also presented. The tangential creep forces and moments that develop in the wheel-rail contact area are evaluated using : Kalker linear theory ; Heuristic force method ; Polach formulation. The methodology is implemented in a general multibody code. The discussion is supported through the application of the methodology to the railway vehicle ML95, used by the Lisbon metro company.

LOAD CHARACTERISTICS OF ROTARY OPERATION BY TRACTOR IN WET PADDY FIELDS

  • Y. G. Wu;Kim, K. U.;Y. K. Jung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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    • 2000.11b
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    • pp.101-108
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    • 2000
  • The torque loads were measured at the input shaft of the transmission and driving shaft of the tractor having a cage wheel attached to the driving tires as a traction aid during. a rotavating operation in wet paddy fields with deep hardpan. Their load spectra were also calculated. Effects of design parameters of the cage wheel on the load characteristics were analyzed. The torque load exerted on the input shaft decreased as diameter of the cage wheel increased and increased as the rotating speed of the rotavator increased. The torque load exerted on the driving shaft increased as the working speed of the tractor increased and decreased as the PTO speed increased. Both the torque loads with the cage wheel were greater than those without the cage wheel. The cage wheel was developed for this study.

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A new method to calculate the equivalent stiffness of the suspension system of a vehicle

  • Zhao, Pinbin;Yao, Guo-Feng;Wang, Min;Wang, Xumin;Li, Jianhui
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.363-378
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    • 2012
  • The stiffness of a suspension system is provided by the bushings and the stiffness of the wheel center controls the suspension's elasto-kinematic (e-k) specification. So the stiffness of the wheel center is very important, but the stiffness of the wheel center is very hard to measure. The paper give a new method that we can use the stiffness of the bushings to calculate the equivalent stiffness of the wheel center, which can quickly and widely be used in all kinds of suspension structure. This method can also be used to optimize and design the suspension system. In the example we use the method to calculate the equivalent stiffness of the wheel center which meets the symmetric and positive conditions of the stiffness matrix.

Microvibration analysis of a cantilever configured reaction wheel assembly

  • Zhang, Zhe;Aglietti, Guglielmo S.;Ren, Weijia;Addari, Daniele
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.379-398
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    • 2014
  • This article discusses the microvibration analysis of a cantilever configured reaction wheel assembly. Disturbances induced by the reaction wheel assembly were measured using a previously designed platform. Modelling strategies for the effect of damping are presented. Sine-sweep tests are performed and a method is developed to model harmonic excitations based on the corresponding test results. The often ignored broadband noise is modelled by removing spikes identified in the raw signal including a method of identifying spikes from energy variation and band-stop filter design. The validation of the reaction wheel disturbance model with full excitations (harmonics and broadband noise) is presented and flaws due to missing broadband noise in conventional reaction wheel assembly microvibration analysis are discussed.

Effects of Wheel Profile on KTX Dynamic Characteristics (차륜답면 형상변화에 따른 KTX의 동특성)

  • 장종기;이승일;최연선
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.259-263
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    • 2004
  • The running safety of a railway vehicle depends on the design parameters and contact condition between wheel and rail. In this study, the effect of the conicity of wheel tread is analyzed using ADAMS/RAIL software on running situation. Modal analysis shows in 0.6 Hz natural frequency of lateral mode in fully arranged the KTX cars. The excessive vibration of the tail cars occurs in the 17th car as the speed and the stiffness of the secondary suspension increases, and especially for 1/40 conicity of the GV40 wheel. Also, the analysis shows that combination of wheel profile, GV40 for power cars and XP55 for passenger cars can reduce the lateral vibration of the tail cars.