• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.326-332
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• 2010

Critical response of seawater pump impeller shaft structure to various exciting loads is a fundamental factor in re-designing of the structure after its functional failure. In this paper, a typical case of the shaft structure's failure is investigated for re-designing purposes. Failure causes of interest are excessive bending moment, fatigue loads and dynamic resonance due to relevant motor rotation and unbalancing of the rotation loads. Static analyses of shaft structure under the conditions of concerned loads are carried out, followed by a dynamic investigation of the effects of resonance between the shaft and the motor on the structure. The relevant structural analyses are carried out using the Finite Element Methods combined with ANSYS code. Based on these, the primary cause for the shaft's structural failure is obtained. It is found that the change of the bending stiffness of the shaft is the primary concern in the re-designing process. A guideline for the re-design process of the seawater pump shaft structure is established, and a re-design scheme of the structure is proposed.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.113-125
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• 1996

'Bowl Phenomenon' refers to allocating the work loads to middle stages slightly less than the outer ones in a series production system. Millier and Boling(1966) first discovered that the output rate of a production line were obtained by deliberately unbalancing, like a bowl-shape, under certain circumstances. So far quite a many researches have been studied either theory-oriented or simulation-oriented on this topic. However the papers concerning assemble production line are rather rare possibly due to the system complexity. In this paper, a simulation work on a 6-node assembly line has been conducted with the help of SLAMSYSTEM software. The simulation results have been turned out that 1) the Bowl phenemenon is still valid in the given system, 2) buffer storage between the work stations are critical measure for determining the degree of work-load unbalancing.