• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.54-59
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• 1997

The vehicle vibrations result from the exciting forces which are caused by air resistance, engine firing, tire mass unbalance and tire uniformity. Especially, the shake and shimmy phenomena in the steering system are closely related to the vehicle vibration, the tire unbalance, and the tire uniformity. This study presents the shimmy phenomena due to the tire mass unbalance and the tire uniformity in order to investigate their effects.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.605-611
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• 2011

Shimmy is a self-excited vibration in lateral and torsional directions of a landing gear during either the take-off or landing. It is caused by a couple of conditions such as a low torsional stiffness of the strut, a free-play in the landing gear, a wheel imbalance, or worn parts, and it may make the aircraft unstable. This study was performed for an analysis of the shimmy stability on a small aircraft. A nose landing gear was modeled as a linear system and characterized by state-equations which were used to analyze the stability both in the frequency and time-domain for predicting whether the shimmy occurs and investigating a good design range of the important parameters. The root-locus method and the 4th Runge-Kutta method were used for each analysis. Because the present system has a simple mechanism using a friction to reinforce the stability, the friction, a non-linear factor, was linearized by a describing function and considered in the analysis and observed the result of the instability reduction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.964-969
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.1395-1400
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• 2007

Tire flat spot is a deformation which occurs around the contact patch during long-period parking and does hardly recovered even after driving. The deformation makes a tire self-excited and ride comfort gets worse. In this study, it is shown that the flat spot can be evaluated by measuring change in radial run out or force. Its effects on vibration at vehicle floor and steering wheel are also revealed. Finally it is shown that the flat spot is likely to occur if the inflation pressure is low and the tire is suppressed by a heavy load at a high temperature.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.37-45
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• 1987

최근의 경량화 췌ㅅ로 말미암아 승용차의 차체는 박판일체식 구조로 제작되어 구조적 강성의 약화를 가져 왔으며 이로 인하여 외부의 요인으로부터 발생되는 승용차의 진동문제는 더욱 악화되고 해결하기 어렵게 되어가고 있다. 이 논문에서는 이러한 여러가지 문제로 인하여 전륜구동형 승용차의 조향계에서 발생되는 Shake와 Shimmy를 2-모드 동흡진기를 사용하여 제어하고자 하며 실제적으로 시작품을 제작하여 실차상태에서 확인시험을 실시하였다.