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Recently, as the quality of life of modern people improves, interest in environmental noise is gradually increasing. As the public's awareness of environmental rights increased, it was necessary to grasp the actual condition of the noise source and systematic noise management plan. The data is expected to be used as a response to noise-related complaints. As a result measured using the factory noise monitoring system, the amount of data measured every 5 minutes from 00:00 to 24:00 can obtain 288 noise levels and frequency characteristics per day, and frequency using 1/3 octave-band. The analysis reveals what frequency range affects the noise from the metal working plant near the office. In addition, it can be seen that it is possible to compare with the reference value by using the stored data divided into night time, day time, and evening time for each time zone, and it is determined that it is possible to secure smooth data about the noise source to be measured.

A gasketed plate heat exchanger(GPHE) requires a much smaller installation space than a shell & tube heat exchanger because of its compact and good thermal performances. However, GPHEs have a disadvantage of being relatively vulnerable to high temperature and pressure due to rubber gaskets. To overcome a GPHEs’ disadvantage, Welded Block type Plate Heat Exchangers(WBPHE) have been developed. The flow pattern and heat transfer principle of WBPHE are very similar to GPHEs, so they are very compact and can be applied to high temperature and pressure. In this study, the structure and characteristics of WBPHE are briefly introduced, and its thermal performances were conducted experimentally using hot and cold water in the Reynolds number’s range from 5,500 to 10,000. Test results were compared with the experimental correlations of other researchers, which shows that significant deviations were noticed in the heat transfer coefficient predictions with a deviation range from 31% to 85%. The previous friction factor correlations also predicted the current results with big errors from 25% to 45%. These deviations are expected to be due to different chevron angles between previous studies and the current study, and also the end-plate effect is expected to be one of the potential causes that led to these deviations.

The flow analysis of two dimensional transient flow over the obstacles with rectangular cross sections was performed. And 190 velocity distributions for each aspect ratio were imaged to provide input data for convolutional neural network learning. The classification and regression methods were used in estimating the aspect ratio from given velocity distributions. As a result the classification method was more exact than the regression method. But both the classification and regression methods gave relatively accurate prediction of the defined aspect ratio judging from the imaged velocity distributions. This confirms that the deep learning technique is applicable to the flow analysis.

Generally, vibration absorber systems are composed of spring-mass systems to reduce the vibration of a structure, and there are also methods to simply increase damping to achieve a damping effect across a wide frequency band. One similar method is to use a mechanism in which the eddy current is converted into a mechanical damping effect. When an eddy current is generated by electromotive force due to magnetic flux change, the reaction force is generated by the eddy current’s circulation. In this study, the damping system using the reaction force was constructed to reduce the transmission of vibrations generating from internal fluid and the vibration reduction characteristics that are transmitted externally were analyzed. As a result, 8.2 % of the vibration reduction effect from primary excitation frequency was confirmed.

Since electric energy is used in industry, mass production and various conveniences are provided. To provide convenience for the construction and operation of such electric energy transmission and distribution facilities, it is increasing that the demand for special purpose vehicles, that is, telescopic aerial work platform vehicles. When working active electric work using the telescopic aerial work platform vehicles, due to active electric work is inevitable, it is essential to ensure insulation performance for the safety of the operator. In this paper, we study the design and development of mechanical properties for filament winding process of glassfiber/epoxy composite, it is required to boom of telescopic aerial work platform vehicles. The glass fiber/epoxy composite filament winding process and its mechanical properties were evaluated to replace the existing ATOS80 boom. By filament winding process it was obtained the mechanical properties required for the design analysis of the glass fiber/epoxy composite boom. Using this, the insulated boom for the 30m class aerial work vehicle was designed and was manufactured by applying the filament winding process. The fabricated composite boom was evaluated by the static strength test to meet the required strength. The maximum displacement was 84mm and the crack occurred at the maximum load of 8981N. It satisfied the maximum lifting load of 4900N and 210mm the maximum displacement required for the boom.

In this study, a bistable energy harvester (BEH) with a piecewise potential function is proposed to improve its energy harvesting performance. A mathematical model of the piecewise BEH (PWBEH) system is established first and a series of numerical simulation are performed, based on the developed model, in order to investigate the nonlinear dynamic behaviors and energy-harvesting performance of the system. The analysis results for the proposed PWBEH system are compared with a conventional BEH (CBEH). The frequency response results show the stiffness-softening interwell motion of the PWBEH, due to the piecewise potential energy function, which is contrary to the stiffness-hardening behavior of the CBEH. Such softening behavior of interwell motion tends to reduce the operating frequency of the BEH, while significantly increasing the output power. This observation indicate that the introduction of the piecewise potential function to a BEH would be beneficial to the system design for enhancing enegy-harvesting performance at the cost of redundant frequency band, which depends on the characteristics of environmental vibration sources.

Experiments were conducted on the operating characteristics and performance of various types of working fluid, filling amount and heat flow rate of a loop thermosyphon for cooling ESS battery container. As results of performance test on various working fluids, HFE-7100 and R-134a as a working fluids showed unstable operating and low performance due to vapor pressure drop, and performance was improved by increasing the number of vapor lines for reducing a pressure drop. In this study, n-pentane was more stable and showed better thermal performance among various working fluids.

Numerical analysis has been carried out to analyze seawater flow field and power generation characteristics of the tidal current power generation system for various multi channel shroud systems. Geometrical multi channel arrangement largely affects the flow field characteristics in the shroud system which power generation performance through turbine blade depends on. Sectional averaged velocity in front of the turbine blade which increases more than 2 times compared with channel inlet is much influenced as well as the flow from the rear with curl. And flow variation results in high inlet velocity in horizontal arrangements of multi channels with mechanical output of the turbine. These results are expected to be used as applicable data for the development of the tidal power generation system with shrouds.

In the car speaker, because the sound characteristics is changed by the space of car which mount the speaker, the speaker elements must be decide according to sound field. In this study, the nonlinear characteristics, the frequency response and the sound pressure for the same size speakers which is adapted to domestic car model are investigated. The car model is classified to semi-midsize, midsized, full size automobile in order to change the car space. As a results, we can investigate the differences of the force factor and the stiffness of suspension system for speaker. According to the change of the speaker characteristics, the sound pressure is changed, also. In the future, these data will be used to investigate the correlation between the sound quality and measurement data.

The purpose of this study is to experimentally figure out thermal performances of a newly developed wavy patterned heat plates(first heat plates) which are known to have better thermal performances than the conventional heat plates. Three types of products were made with high and low chevron angled plates. The test results show that overall heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops increased with flow rates and chevron angles just like other studies. Another purpose of this study is to find a way to reduce pressure drops while maintaining or even improving the heat transfer characteristics of the first heat plates. Research on optimization of the distribution area on the heat plate to achieve the even fluid distribution was conducted, and then the second heat plates were developed to reflect the research results. Another new three types of products with the second heat plates were manufactured and tested, too. The test results of the second heat plates were compared with those of the first heat plates to find out how the distribution area contributed to the thermal performances of the heat plates. The comparison showed that distribution area optimization could affect thermal performances of the high chevron angled plate positively, but the low chevron angled plate had little effect from the optimization. This is considered to be because the low chevron angled plate itself has a characteristic that the pressure drop is small.

In this study, the effect of various pilot injection timings on combustion and emission characteristics were investigated in a common-rail direct injection (CRDI) diesle engine fueled with diesel-ethanol blends. The engine speed and engine load were controlled at constant 1500rpm and 70Nm, respectively. The tested fuels were DE0 (pure diesel fuel), DE5 (5 vol.% ethanol blended with 95 vol.% diesel oil), DE10 (10 vol.% ethanol blended with 90 vol.% diesel oil) and DE15 (15 vol.% ethanol blended with 85 vol.% diesel oil). The main injection timing was fixed at 0°CA TDC (top dead center), while various pilot injection timings including 25°CA BTDC (before top dead center), 20°CA BTDC and 10°CA BTDC were selected as the experimental variable. The experimental results showed that various pilot injection timings had little effect on the peak value of cylinder pressure, but had great influence on the start of combustion. The peak value of heat release rate (HHR) increased with the increase of ethanol content. However, the peak value of HRR reduced as the pilot injection is delayed. The diesel fuel containing 10% ethanol had a highest peak value of combustion pressure compared with the others, while the pilot injection timing occurred at 25°CA BTDC. On the other hand, the exhaust emissions of DE10 was also the lowest compared with the others. In addition, with the increase of ethanol content in diesel the PM and NOx emissions reduced.

This paper aims at investigating the adhesive property at damage analysis according to the shape of the DCB test specimen made of Titanium, Dualumin as the high strength nonferrous metals. In this analysis, all three specimens had the lower holes bound by the cylinder support and the top holes were elongated with the rate of 6mm/min. The study results show that the longer the load block of DCB specimens, the more reliable and durable they are. It is utilized as the basic data at investigating the damage properties of adhesives in DCB specimens made of high strength nonferrous metals.

In this study, the flat glass and adsorption pad were modeled using SolidWorks Simulation, to understand the deformation characteristics of the vertical flat glass by the adsorption pressure during vertical transport of LCD. The horizontal and vertical displacements and equivalent stresses of the flat glass were investigated by the structural analysis. From the displacement and stress visualization according to the adsorption pressure, the higher the adsorption pressure, the larger the glass surface protruded. The horizontal deformation of flat glass increased with increasing thickness and the vertical deformation increased with decreasing thickness. In addition, the maximum equivalent stress applied to the flat glass increased significantly as the adsorption pressure increased and the thickness decreased. As a result of the structural analysis, the thinner the thickness of the plate glass, the greater the effect on the adsorption pressure. Especially, the effect of the adsorption pressure was clearly observed at the thickness of 0.5mm.

This paper deals with the dynamic control of redundant robot manipulator. Traditionally, the kinematic control schemes for redundant robot manipulator were developed from the point of speed and used under the assumption that the dynamic control of manipulator is perfect. However, in reality, the precise control of redundant robot manipulator is very difficult due to their dynamics. Therefore, the kinematic controllers for redundant robot manipulator were employed in the acceleration dimension and may be combined with the computed torque method to achieve the accurate control performance. But their control performance is limited by the accuracy of the manipulator parameters such as the link mass, length, moment of inertia and varying payload. Hence in this paper, the proportional and derivative control gains of the computed torque controller are optimized by the genetic algorithm on the typical payloads, and the neural network is applied to obtain the proper control gains for arbitrary loads. The simulation results show that the proposed control method has better performance than the conventional control method for redundant robot manipulator.

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between control system of Bosch system and that of Delphi system by measuring the high and low voltage waveform, current waveform and fuel injection quantity of D-2 and R- engines. Waveform measurements are used the PICO scope and the CDS tester. The injectors of D-2 and R-engines were tested under no load condition using injector with normal fuel injection quantity, injector with small fuel injection quantity and injector with many fuel injection quantity. The relation between current energy and fuel injection quantity shows that the injector variation rate of D2-engine is much larger than that of R-engine. The injector current energy of the D2-engine was more linear than that of the R-engine, therefore making the system more stable. Although the control system of the D2-engine is a more stable system only in terms of the durability of the internal parts of the injector, the injector of the R-engine has a good response because the current value is large.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the temperature and heat resistance distribution, which is a criterion for evaluating the cooling performance, by using computer simulation of the cooling system combined with the CPU of the individual highest heat generation section, and use it as important data for the heat sink design. Using a single material of Al 6063-T5, which is an integral part of the desktop, fan and heat sink, fins and base, the analysis was carried out with various fin numbers, thicknesses, pitches and shapes of heat sinks. Ambient temperature, 25°C, heat source, 130W and cooling fan speed, 2500 rpm (50CFM) were used as boundary conditions, and heat transfer characteristics regarding temperature distribution and heat resistance were investigated using ANSYS Icepak. As a result, it has been found that as the number of fins of heat sink increases, the heat dissipation area increases to decrease heat resistance, and as the distance between each fin decreases, the ventilation resistance increases to decrease the flow intensity of the cooling air in contact with the heat dissipation area. The sunburst array also exhibits better heat transfer characteristics by obtaining a lower distribution of heat resistance with a cooling effect of about 10°C than the one-way basic array.

Commercial carbon fiber is sized with Bisphenol A type epoxy, a thermosetting resin, to prevent fiber damage due to friction during weaving and manufacturing processes. When the thermoplastic resin is used as the base material, the interface between the carbon fiber and the thermoplastic resin is very weak because the bonding force with the thermosetting resin is not good, which greatly affects the mechanical properties of the composite material. Therefore, in order to improve the mechanical properties of the thermoplastic composite material, a process of removing the epoxy sizing layer on the surface of the carbon fiber in a furnace is required. In this process, the physical properties of the carbon fiber are changed according to the change of carbon fiber heat treatment conditions. In this paper, the study was carried out to evaluate the tensile strength required for automobile parts by extrusion and injection of thermoplastic resin based carbon fiber composites. Depending on the heat treatment temperature and time of the carbon fiber was a slightly tensile strength of the carbon composite material occurs, the tensile strength of the carbon composite material with a 6 hour heat-treated carbon fiber was measured at 550 ℃ the highest to 93 MPa. When the heat treatment holding time is more than 6 hours or the heat treatment temperature is more than 600 ℃, it may be the damage to the carbon fiber, which can cause a decrease in the tensile strength of the carbon fiber composite material.

This paper is one of basic studies for development of fuel rail to secure strength of GDI system. The fuel rail supports high pressure of 200~250bar and stores fuel while reducing pulsation during injection. Therefore, the structural characteristics of the conventional fuel rail was investigated with respect to stress and displacement. Then, the study focused on reducing stress concentration on fuel rail design to enhance the strength of each components. It was found that the maximum stress was not affected to the dimensions of taper lengths and angles of holes for fuel pipe. Also, it was found that the shape of holes for fuel pipe was key factor to reduce maximum stress, and the bridge between injector and mounting holder was effective structure to reduce the stress of injectors and displacement of the fuel rail system.

In this study, carbon fiber Z-pins were fabricated by applying the different manufacturing process, and pull out test was performed for the dumbbell type of test specimens. Carbon fiber Z pins with smooth surface(type I) and stepped surface(type II, type III) were fabricated by using autoclave. Carbon fiber Z-pins with stepped surface were manufacturing method, that is, mold forming and machining process. The experimantal results show that carbon fiber Z pins have superior pull-out characteristics to carbon steel Z-pins. Pull-out load and pull-out toughness of carbon fiber Z pins with stepped surface are larger than those of carbon fiber Z-pins with smooth surface. Pull-out load and pull out toughness of mold f ormed Z-pin are 31% and 218% larger than those of smooth surfaced Z-pins, respectively.

In this study, we investigated the effects of diesel-palm oil biodiesel-ethanol blends on combustion and emission characteristics in a 4-cylinder common rail direct injection (CRDI) diesel engine at low idling operations. The engine speed and engine load was 750 rpm and 40 Nm, while the main and pilot injection timing was respectively fixed at 2 °CA before top dead center (BTDC) and 20 °CA BTDC. The experimental results showed that the cylinder pressure increased with the increasing of palm oil biodiesel ratio from 20% to 100%. In addition, the peak value of cylinder pressure increased by 4.35% compared with pure diesel fuel when 5 vol.% ethanol oil added to diesel oil. Because the palm oil biodiesel and ethanol are the oxygenated fuel, the oxygen content played an important role in improving combustion. Based on the high oxygen content of biodiesel and ethanol, their mixing with diesel fuel effectively reduced PM emissions but increased NOx slightly, while CO and HC had no significant changes.

Engine components subjected to cyclic thermal and mechanical loads may experience low-cycle or high-cycle fatigue failures. In particular, both of these failures can easily occur in aluminum cylinder heads, which are exposed to high temperatures and combustion pressures. Predicting the fatigue characteristics of the cylinder head are very important in the design stage of engine development. In this study, a finite element analysis was performed to predict the low-cycle thermal fatigue around exhaust ports of the cylinder head. Temperature distributions are obtained through the heat transfer analysis considering thermal cyclic test. The analysis result involves large plastic deformations, indicating compressive stresses at high temperatures and subsequently turn into tensile stresses at cold conditions. And the results showed that the critical regions such as exhaust port with large plastic strains coincided well with crack locations from thermal cyclic test. Next, design changes were made to the critical areas of the exhaust ports, and the results showed that the durability was improved by about 60% over the initial model and there were no problems in the thermal fatigue test.

In order to commercialize large diameter PP pipes, the cutting work was attempted with the cutting machine(∅18″and AL120 cutter, 2100 r.p.m) used for the conventional PE or PVC pipe(∅1200 mm, t 70), but the cutting work was failed because the material of “PP pipe” melted and sticked to the surface of the wheel-cutter. In order to find the optimal structure and number of blades for wheel-cutters, an experimental investigation the temperature measurement of specimen and wheel-cutter and the visualization of cutted specimen surface and chip shape were carried out during and after experiment. In addition, modelings for cutting and heat transfer mechanisms have been developed for theoretical analysis. The theoretical and experimental results were in good agreement. The results show that the appropriate structure and the rotational speed of wheel-cutter are W60 and 650 rpm for the large diameter PP pipe cutting machine.

In this study, quality keywords of frequent mention of failures were extracted by analyzing the field operational data of main battle tanks recorded for about 5 years. As a result of the data analysis, the leaf spring assembly of the crew hatches corrosion and failure was frequently occurred. FEA(Finite Element Analysis) and tests were performed to analyze the cause of the failure, and it was confirmed that durability of the leaf spring was insufficient. Therefore a design modification study was conducted to improve durability of the leaf spring, and FEA and durability tests demonstrated the improvement. As a result, the durability of leaf spring was improved at least 3.3 times compared to before improvement. This study will contribute to suggesting the use of data analysis in the defense area and improving the operability of the main battle tanks.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationship of how the ship's wave resistance performance changes with the change of the longitudinal position of the section line in the ship's lines, and to find a way to use it in the hull-form design. To this end, we developed a hull-form automatic change algorithm that can maintain the proper hull-form while moving the section lines in the longitudinal direction, and the computer program for a numerical analysis was developed to apply the developed algorithm. By applying the developed hull-form automatic change algorithm and the wave resistance performance prediction program, the numerical analysis package was constructed. The numerical analysis was carried out for the passenger ship. Numerical analyzes were carried out by moving the section lines of the passenger ship in the longitudinal direction, and the results were compared with each other. Based on the numerical results, we attempted to investigate the correlation between the section line movement and the wave resistance performance.

The objective of this study is to optimize the diameter of tubular shaft yoke and solid shaft yoke, which are the core components of Al IMS for xEV. The processes of both products were designed totally 6 steps to manufactured the shaft part and the yoke part. The diameter of solid shaft yoke and tubular shaft yoke were changed from 20mm to 25mm and from 30mm to 35mm, respectively. Al 6082 was applied to the material of both products. The friction condition between die and material was employed Oil_Cold (Aluminum) with reference to the library in the program. The results were analyzed and compared in terms of effective stress, effective strain, and nodal velocity characteristics. The effective strain value for manufacturing the yoke part was higher than the shaft part because its part has a complex geometry. The value of nodal velocity was also higher with high effective strain region. However, in 6 stage process of tubular shaft yoke, although it had the high effective strain value, the nodal velocity value was the lowest due to the piercing process. The effect of shaft part diameter on effective stress in the tubular shaft was difficult to observe, however, in the solid shaft yoke, when the shaft part of one increased, the effective stress value was increased due to the larger yoke size.

With the current increase in national income, consumers are favoring expensive home appliances. Many aluminum parts are used to improve the appearance of TV products. However, many losses are incurred due to production defects. There are many flaws in the bending process. This study studied the improvement of bending defects during fault handling. The material used is an aluminum alloy (6063), and the product is a serrated component on the surface of an aluminum part. After the bending process, it was identified how the sawtooth area was twisted. Then, while bending, experimented to find the main cause of the defect. The study tried to find maximum effectiveness with a minimum experiment using 6 sigma techniques. The experiment showed that there were many defects depending on the bending speed of the part and the distance it was fixed. The experiment used a method of finding optimal conditions by combining variables from each item. As a result, the failure was minimized when the distance between the two axes was maintained at 4.5-5mm and the bending speed was maintained at 15mm/sec. The component fixation force has a fixed hook in the middle of the product, and therefore it is found that changes in the amount of byte for the fixed part do not result in significant improvements in the defect.

The research model of panel data analysis in this study was used as the dependent variables and the business characteristics of the welding industry were reflected in the research model for systematic analysis of the effect of welding technology on the welding industry. As a result of the existing research, the domestic welding technology is seriously encroaching on the domestic welding industry between the United States, Japan and China. There is no quantitative statistical analysis on this aspect. In this study, the panel data analysis is used to indicate differences in explanatory power by numerical values of POLS model, fixed effect and random effect. And the prior studies on the current status of welding industry related to arc welding, special welding, multiple welding, welding and bonding technology are applied by the panel data analysis. Therefore, the problems of existing research are diagnosed while presenting the future research directions.

This study applies magnetic abrasive finishing to the precision machining of Ti-6Al-4V (Eli) bars and then assesses the finishing capabilities for application to high-precision machining. Because Ti-6AL-4V (Eli) is widely used in applications where it is exposed to the human body, the industrial grinding oil that is commonly used in the magnetic abrasive finishing process was replaced by vegetable oils; the processing performances of these different grinding oils were compared and verified. The characteristics of magnetic abrasive finishing were also investigated according to the temperature of the material. The experimental results show that olive oil yields a surface roughness improvement of 87%. Also, in terms of the roundness and the amount of material removal, the performance was excellent. This demonstrates the possibility of replacing the conventional industrial oil for grinding. Furthermore, when olive oil was used at different temperatures, the finishing characteristics at room temperature were the most excellent. SEM and EDX analyses of the machined components (before and after processing) showed that the material composition was not changed. Additionally, the magnetic abrasive tool composition was not found on the surface of the finished samples. In conclusion, the possibility of using vegetable oil as the grinding oil for high-precision machining of Ti-6Al-4V (Eli) bars via a magnetic abrasive finishing process at room temperature conditions was verified.

A magnetic abrasive finishing process was proposed for improving the surface accuracy of microscale -diameter STS 304 bar used in many applications such as, medical, aerospace, and nuclear industries. Most of the previous research has already explored the conventional finishing technique to improve the accuracy of material in terms of the surface roughness. However, their results are still not good enough for the requirement in the today’s engineering industry. Especially, when the workpiece is a material of microscale-diameter, use of such conventional processes becomes impossible because they entail the application of high pressures that may damage the surface to be finished. Moreover, less control is available over these conventional finishing processes. In this study, an ultra-high-precision magnetic abrasive finishing process was applied to the precision machining of microscale-diameter STS 304 bar and the experimental work are performed with many critical parameters such as, different workpiece revolution speeds, abrasive grain sizes, different finishing temperatures, and pole vibrations. The results showed that in The initial surface roughness of 0.20 µm (Ra) was decreased to 0.025 µm with 0.5 µm of abrasive grain size and pole vibration 12Hz at 40,000 rpm.