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Powder Metallurgy for Light Weight and Ultra-Light Weight Materials

  • Kieback, B.;Stephani, G.;Weiβgarber, T.;Schubert, T.;Waag, U.;Bohm, A.;Anderson, O.;Gohler, H.;Reinfried, M.
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.383-389
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    • 2003
  • As in other areas of materials technology, the tendency towards light weight constructions becomes more and more important also for powder metallurgy. The development is mainly driven by the automotive industry looking for mass reduction of vehicles as a major factor for fuel economy. Powder metallurgy has to offer a number of interesting areas including the development of sintered materials of light metals. PM aluminium alloys with improved properties are on the way to replace ferrous pars. For high temperature applications in the engine, titanium aluminide based materials offer a great potential, e.g. for exhaust valves. The PM route using elemental powders and reactions sintering is considered to be a cost effective way for net shape parts production. Furthermore it is expected that lower costs for titanium raw materials coming from metallurgical activities will offer new chances for sintered parts with titanium alloys. The field of cellular metals expands with the hollow sphere technique, that can provide materials of many metals and alloys with a great flexibility in structure modifications. These structures are expected to be used in improving the safety (crash absoption) and noise reduction in cars in the near future and offer great potential for many other applications.

A Study on the Characteristics of the Modern Chair Design (현대 의자 디자인의 특성에 관한 연구)

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    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.13
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    • pp.187-196
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    • 1997
  • A Study on the Characteristics of the Modern Chair Design The features of the modern chair design results from the diverse life style unfolded as per the 20th century social structure and the change of the residential space, and new design has been being developed by the scientists and the artists in various fields through their cooperated work in a way. The field of the scientific or technical study and creation of arts can be developed where they can evoke the sympathy in the circumstances under which the various styles of both arts and science meet across, complement crash together, and grow up. The operation which can control in the network of such pluralistic sphere has been needed for a long period and it has been facing the needs from a time and society. The engineering furniture as the counterplan of the above has brought the value of materials into relief to the forms of human life by making the properties of matter the maximum value or changing it. It can be summarized as following characteristics in its materials and forms along as well as the 3 types (handycrafty, mechanical, and ecological expression) in process through the 20th century. 1. Characteristics in Materials elasticity of the chair as per the changes of the flexibility in the steel pipe development of systematic chair using the plasticity of the plywood, plastic, and wire lightweight due to the materials such as aluminum. 2. Formative characteristics formative simplicity for the increase of the function and the quality improvement such as sociality, productivity, environmental and aesthetic nature emphasis on the structure as per the architectural environment and tecniques pursuit of the forms as a container of the human body seeking for the formative values as the cultural symbols coping with the needs from thepluralistic social structure Furniture is not the makeup for convenience sake but most importantexpression as necessaries of our environments. It should identify itself always as per these kind of needs and also it should be able to used to keep the relation of such mutual division, otherwise the purchase of new furniture should be necessary according to every change of the existing situatiov. Our residence doesn't need the specific style but expresses only the properties of the dwellers.

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Automotive Airbag Inflator Analysis Using Measured Properties of Modern Propellants (추진제 특성을 이용한 에어백 인플레이터 성능 제어에 대한 실험 및 해석에 대한 연구)

  • Seo, Young-Duk;Kim, Gun-Woo;Hong, Bum-Suk;Kim, Jin-Ho;Chung, Suk-Ho;Yoh, Jai-Ick
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.53-62
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    • 2010
  • An airbag is composed of housing assembly, door assembly, cushion assembly, and an inflator. The inflator is the essential part that generates gas for airbag. When an airbag is activated, it effectively absorbs the crash energy of the passenger by inflating a cushion. In this study, tank tests were performed with newly synthesized propellants with various compositions, and the results are compared with the numerical results. In the simulation of inflator, a zonal model has been adopted which consisted of four zones of flow regions: combustion chamber, filter, gas plenum, and discharge tank. Each zone was described by the conservation equations with specified constitutive relations for gas. The pressure and temperature of each zone of the inflator were calculated and analyzed and the results were compared with the tank test data. In the zone of discharge tank the pressure quickly rose, the pattern of pressure curve was very similar to the pressure curve of real test. And in zone 1 & 2 & 3 the mass of products was increased and decreased with time. In zone 4, the mass of products was increased with time like real inflator. From the similarity of pressure curve in zone 4 and closed bomb calculation the modeled results are well correlated with the experimental values.

Long-Tail Watchdog Timer for High Availability on STM32F4-Based Real-Time Embedded Systems (STM32F4 기반의 실시간 임베디드 시스템의 가동시간 향상을 위한 긴 꼬리 와치독 타이머 기법)

  • Choi, Hayeon;Yun, Jiwan;Park, Seoyeon;Kim, Yesol;Park, Sangsoo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.723-733
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    • 2015
  • High availability is of utmost importance in real-time embedded systems. Temporary failures due to software or hardware faults should not result in a system crash. To achieve high availability, embedded systems typically use a combination of hardware and software techniques. A watchdog timer is a hardware component in embedded microprocessors that can be used to automatically reset the processor if software anomalies are detected. The embedded system relies on a single watchdog timer, however, can be permanently disabled if the timer is not properly configured, e.g. falling into an indefinite loop. STM32F4 provides two different types of watchdog timer in terms of timing accuracy and robustness. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach, called long-tail watchdog timer, to utilize both timers to achieve self-reliance in embedded systems even though one of timers fails. Experimental results confirm that the proposed approach successfully handles various failure scenarios and present performance comparisons between single watchdog timer and hybrid approach in terms of configuration parameters of watchdog timers in STM32F4, counter value and window size.

Design and Implementation of Network Fault-Tolerant Application Software Streaming (네트워크 고장감내 소프트웨어 스트리밍 기술의 설계 및 구현)

  • Shim, Jeong-Min;Kim, Won-Young;Choi, Wan
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.6 no.10
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    • pp.126-133
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    • 2006
  • Application software streaming is a virtualization technology that enables users to use applications without installation on her/his computer. With application streaming service, a client immediately starts and uses the application as if it were installed. The application can be executed while executable codes for the application may still be streamed. Since the software streaming is based on networks, its service is affected by network failures. Network failures may cause the streamed application to stop, and to make it worse, also the system may crash because executable codes for the application can't be streamed from the streaming server. Using the Pareto principle (80 vs. 20 rule), users can be served continuously with the minimum functions that are frequently used, pre-fetched and cached if we provide a more intelligent and fault-tolerant streaming technique. This paper proposes the concept and technique named Evergreen. Using the Evergreen technique, users can continue using the streamed application while a network failure occurs, although user can access only the streamed code. We also discuss the implementation of Evergreen technique in details.

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Addressing Big Data solution enabled Connected Vehicle services using Hadoop (Hadoop을 이용한 스마트 자동차 서비스용 빅 데이터 솔루션 개발)

  • Nkenyereye, Lionel;Jang, Jong-Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.607-612
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    • 2015
  • As the amount of vehicle's diagnostics data increases, the actors in automotive ecosystem will encounter difficulties to perform a real time analysis in order to simulate or to design new services according to the data gathered from the connected cars. In this paper, we have conducted a study of a Big Data solution that expresses the essential deep analytics to process and analyze vast quantities of vehicles on board diagnostics data generated by cars. Hadoop and its ecosystems have been deployed to process a large data and delivered useful outcomes that may be used by actors in automotive ecosystem to deliver new services to car owners. As the Intelligent transport system is involved to guarantee safety, reduce rate of crash and injured in the accident due to speed, addressing big data solution based on vehicle diagnostics data is upcoming to monitor real time outcome from it and making collection of data from several connected cars, facilitating reliable processing and easier storage of data collected.

Calculation Method and Influence Factor for Speed Change of a Vehicle Impacting Small Sign Post (소형지주에 충돌하는 차량의 속도변화 산정방법과 영향인자)

  • Ko, Man-Gi;Kim, Kee-Dong;Jun, Sung-Min;Sung, Jung-Gon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2008
  • Important factor in designing a breakaway sign support is the velocity change of the impact vehicle. It is measured from the crash test or can be calculated by 3-D Finite Element Analysis. It can also be calculated with relative ease utilizing energy and momentum conservation. In this paper a formula to calculate the velocity change of a car during the time of impact against a small sign is derived utilizing the energy and momentum balance. Using the formula, parametric studies were conducted to find that impact speed, separation force and Breakaway Fracture Energy(BFE) of the posts which represent the degree of fixedness to the foundation are the important factor to vehicle's speed change. It is shown that speed change is larger in the lower speed impact and to the posts with large separation force and BFE.

Design and Implementation of Transactional Write Buffer Cache with Storage Class Memory (트랜잭션 단위 쓰기를 보장하는 스토리지 클래스 메모리 쓰기 버퍼캐시의 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Young-Jin;Doh, In-Hwan;Kim, Eun-Sam;Choi, Jong-Moo;Lee, Dong-Hee;Noh, Sam-H.
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.247-251
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    • 2010
  • Using SCM in storage systems introduce new potentials for improving I/O performance and reliability. In this paper, we study the use of SCM as a buffer cache that guarantees transactional unit writes. Our proposed method can improve storage system reliability and performance at the same time and can recover the storage system immediately upon a system crash. The Proposed method is based on the LINUX JBD(Journaling Block Device), thus reliability is equivalent to JBD. In our experiments, the file system that adopts our method shows better I/O performance even while guaranteeing high reliability and shows fast file system recovery time (about 0.2 seconds).

A Study on HAZ Softening Characteristics of Fiber Laser Weldment for High-Strength Steel (고장력강 파이버 레이저 용접부의 HAZ 연화 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Min-Ho;Kim, Ill-Soo;Lee, Jong-Pyo;Jin, Byeong-Ju;Kim, Do-Hyeong;Kim, In-Ju;Kim, Ji-Sun
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2015
  • Laser welding sector in the automotive industry has been widely recognized as one of the most important bonding processes, such as parts welding. Efforts to improve productivity and weld quality have been progressing steadily. In addition, laser welding is suitable for welding process that can produce high-quality welds suitable for flexible production and small quantity batch productions. In order to ensure the rigidity of the material, high strength material are applied to more than 1 GPa class body parts and automotive bumper beams. However, not only the situation is that the trend of domestic research, but also development is based on product molding considering freedom of shape where reinforcement is applied to meet the safety regulations and high-speed crash performance, despite the use of high strength materials. The tendency for heat-affected zone (HAZ) softening phenomenon common in areas of laser welded high tensile steel welding confirmed the occurrence of weld softening effect according to the process parameters. Based on this, range of process parameters could be selected for ensuring weld quality.

A study on Application of the Rate Quality Control Method of Over-dispersed Traffic Crash Data (과분산된 교통사고자료에 대한 한계사고율법의 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Sung, Nak-Moon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.22 no.1 s.72
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2004
  • In conducting traffic safety programs, it is very important to identify hazardous sites in appropriate manner. The rate qualify control method is generally used in identifying hazardous sites since it can interpret the sites in the statistic aspects. The rate qualify control method is based on the assumption that the occurrences of traffic crashes follow the Poisson's distribution in which the expected value of traffic crashes equals the variance of those. However, there is greater variability than expected statistically, we call this phenomenon over dispersion. This study analyzed the problem related to the rate quality control method under the over dispersed data, and established a methodology to solve the problem. As a result of test on the basis of the field data, the new approach produced more reasonable results than those of the Poisson based rate quality control method.