• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2018

This paper suggests how to improve the fatigue strength of an axle shaft, which is the vulnerable part of an axle shaft system for a 3.5-ton commercial vehicle. The axle shaft is composed of a universal joint with a spider and yoke, yoke shaft, and so on. Structural analysis of the initial axle shaft was conducted to select the exact area for structural strength fatigue improvement, and as a result, the inner/outer yoke shaft and spider were selected. Four cases considered design variables, such as length and thickness, to verify the enhanced durability of the axle shaft, and fatigue analysis was conducted. Finally, we suggest that the axle shaft system satisfied the working conditions for a 3.5-ton commercial vehicle.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.88-94
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• 2012

An axle drive shaft with double joint shaft, cross kit and yoke has an important role by transferring power and changing steering angle between axle and wheel in power train system. It has been used widely in the heavy machinery requiring a high reliability in the power train system. At fatigue failures of the axle drive shaft with the long span, a relatively high stress concentration at a snap ring groove on the drive shaft brings to significant fatigue damages under repeated loading condition. As Peterson's suggestions on this study, a relief groove in the vicinity of the snap ring groove is applied by decreasing the stress concentration and improving the fatigue life of axle drive shaft. By using FEM analysis, the decreasing effect of the stress concentration and extended fatigue life are due to the change of design parameters related with size and location of the relief groove. The relief groove with the design parameters such as d/b=2.0 and r/h=1.2 enables to decrease the stress concentration of 22.3% and increase the fatigue life more than 3 times by comparing with no relief groove application.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.937-938
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• 2010

• 소음진동
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.596-601
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• 2000

Propeller shaft is one of the main excitation source in the vehicle driveline. This paper presents the correlation of the propeller shaft and axle vibration. 10 D.O.F. lumped mass model is constructed to simulate the dirveline. Experimental apparatus is constructed to verify the simulation model and to measure the vibration signal of lthe driveline. The results of simulation and experiments show that propeller shaft excitation is 2nd harmonic of the rotational frequency. Axle housing vibration signal shows that axle resonate with 2nd harmonic of excitation frequency due to universal joint effect.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.459-463
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• 2008

Induction hardening has been used to improve torsional strength and characteristics of wear for axle shaft which is a part of automobile to transmit driving torque from differential to wheel. After rapidly heating and cooling process of induction hardening, the shaft has residual stress and material properties change which affect allowable transmit torque. The objective of this study is to predict the distribution of residual stress and estimate the torsional strength of induction hardened axle shafts which has been residual stress using finite element analysis considered thermo mechanical behavior of material and experiments. Results indicate that the torsional strength of axle shaft depends on the surface hardening depth and distribution of residual stress.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.397-402
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• 2013

This study examined the tribological characteristics of the drive shaft and axle system in vehicles. The first drive shaft example contained end play for a CV joint that transferred part of the transmission power to the wheel. The joint part of the drive shaft was deformed because of reduced durability due to wear. Thus, vibrations caused the body to shake and become unbalanced when the drive shaft transferred the power. The second example was the cross-section of a shaft that connected the slip-connection of the propeller shaft on the input side to the yoke flange of the output side; the durability was reduced because of corrosion. End play caused by wear between the bearing and cross-section shaft appeared to cause shaking. In the third example, a grease leak reduced lubrication and thus caused damage to the hub bearing and inside the knuckle. The failure was produced by sticking. The fourth example had noise produced by the gear and gear transfer. This was due to the backlash of the pinion and few ring gears for the differential gear. Therefore, drive shaft and axle systems must be thoroughly checked and managed to minimize and reduce failure phenomena.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.337-338
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• 2007

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2020

This study analyzed the load and the consumed power characteristics of a potato harvesting operation in a dry field. The potato harvesting operation was performed using an underground crop harvester mounted on an agricultural tractor with a rated engine power of 23.7 kW. The rotational speeds and the torque of the engine output shaft, rear axle, and power take-off (PTO) shaft were measured under various working conditions. The load spectrum and the consumed power were analyzed using the measured data. The results show that the consumed power of the rear axle increased as the working speed increased, while that of the PTO shaft decreased. The consumed power of the engine output shaft showed a similar trend with that of the PTO shaft, but the torque deviation was larger in the load spectrum. The results of previous studies were used to compare herein the consumed power and the load characteristics of the harvesting, rotary, and plow operations in a dry field. PTO and tractive power were highly consumed in the plow and rotary operations, respectively. The consumed power of the PTO shaft and the rear axle in the harvesting operation were 29-41% and 18-23% of the engine power, respectively. Compared to those in the rotary and plow operations, the engine power was relatively evenly distributed to the PTO shaft and rear axle in the harvesting operation.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.645-649
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• 2010

고주파열처리(induction hardening)는 엔진의 구동력을 차동장치에서 바퀴까지 전달해주는 부품인 액슬축(axle shaft)의 비틀림 강도를 증가시키기 위해 적용되는 열처리 방법이다. 고주파 열처리 과정의 급속가열과 급속냉각은 소재에 잔류응력과 물성치를 변화시켜 액슬축의 허용 전달토크를 변화시킨다. 본 연구에서는 고주파 열처리한 액슬축의 잔류응력의 분포와 열처리 깊이에 따른 비틀림 강도 변화를 열물성 및 상변태를 고려한 유한요소 해석을 통해 예측하였으며 이를 시험과 비교하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2581-2587
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• 2013

철도차량의 안전성을 위해 사용되는 윤축은 차량 전체 중량의 16%를 차지하는 요소로서, 철도차량의 경량화에 있어 필수적으로 연구되는 대상이다. 본 연구는 기존 윤축의 중량을 요구강도에 만족시킴과 경량화를 목적으로 창의적 문제해결이론인 TRIZ의 6SC를 적용하여 중공구조의 윤축 내부에 사용될 수 있는 캡을 설계하였고, 설계에 대한 검증을 위해 해석 툴인 ANSYS를 활용하였다. 본 연구에서 제안한 캡의 재질은 SM45C이며 중공구조이다. 또한, 윤축에 요구되는 강도를 만족하기 위해 중공 윤축의 베어링 시트 부 내부에 위치한다. 본 연구를 통해 설계 및 해석된 캡을 삽입한 윤축은 전동차의 윤축에 요구되는 기준을 만족하였으며 무게는 중실축과 비교하였을 때, 약 6.75%를 감소시켰다. 윤축 강도에 대한 평가 기준은 EN13103 및 EN13104의 규격을 적용하였다. 또한, 캡을 장착한 윤축의 최대응력 및 중량에 대해 기존의 중실축, 중공축과 비교함으로써 설계에 대한 효과를 검증하였다.