Prediction of fatigue life and estimation of its reliability on the parts of an air suspension system

Air suspension systems have been implemented in various commercial vehicles, such as buses and special purpose trucks, because of the comfortable ride and easy height control. An evaluation of the durability of vehicle parts has been required for service life and safety starting in the early stages of design. The cyclic load applied to the vehicle can cause fatigue failure of parts, such as the suspension frame. This paper presents a method to predict the fatigue life of the suspension frame at the design stage of the air suspension system used in a heavy-duty vehicle. To estimate the fatigue life using the SN method, the Dynamic Stress Time History (DSTH) is necessary for the part of interest. DSTH can be obtained from the results of the flexible body dynamic analysis using the Belgian road simulation and the Modal Stress Recovery (MSR) method. Furthermore, the reliability of the predicted fatigue life can be evaluated by considering the variations in material properties. The probability and distribution of the expected life cycle can be obtained using experimental design with a minimum number of simulations. The advantage of using statistical methods to evaluate the life cycle is the ability to predict replacement time and the probability of failure of mass-produced parts. This paper proposes a rapid and simple method that can be effectively applied to the design of vehicle parts.     

Lane-following method for high speed autonomous vehicles

This paper presents a steering control method for lane-following in a vehicle using an image sensor. With each image frame acquired from the sensor, the steering control method determines target position and direction, and constructs a travel path from the current position to the target position either as an Arc-path or S-path. The steering angle is calculated from the travel path thus generated, and the vehicle follows the travel path via motor-control. The method was tested using a vehicle dubbed as KAV (Korea Autonomous Vehicle) along an expressway (Seoul Inner Beltway) trajectory with a variety of radii (50 m ∼ 300 m) while traveling at a speed of 60 km/h to 80 km/h. Compared with an experienced human driver, the method showed little much difference in performance in terms of lane-center deviation. The proposed method is currently employed for high speed autonomous driving as well as for stop and go traffic.     

Transient characteristics of emissions during engine start/stop operation employing a conventional gasoline engine for HEV application

In this paper, we investigate the transient characteristics of combustion and emissions during engine start/stop operations in hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications. Hydrocarbon (HC) emissions during the initial 2^nd∼9^th cycles are found to be significantly greater when the engine is quickly started under the original engine calibration mode. Lower intake manifold absolute pressure (MAP) was also found to cause larger residual gas dilution and poor combustion, resulting in a higher HC concentration when the cranking speed was increased. The post-catalyst HC concentration was found in the way of initially decrease and then to increase again as the cranking speed was increased. A lowest concentration value was achieved at a cranking speed of 1000 r/min. Engine shut-down by fuel cut-off was shown to produce lower emissions than shut-down by ignition cut-off as one can avoid misfire of the last fuel injection cycle. The fuel deposited during the stop process seems to impact engine restart enrichment mostly during the initial 0.7 s for this engine, whose performance is dominated by the MAP transition characteristic and the time coefficient for fuel vaporization in this time period     

发动机VVT叶片式相位器响应速度影响因素相关性分析

利用AMESim建立了发动机可变凸轮相位器响应速度数值仿真模型,结合试验设计和相关性分析,验证了仿真模型的可靠性并研究了相位器的各个关键参数对其响应速度的影响机理.研究发现:对相位器响应速度影响显著的一次因素为叶片力臂、叶片厚度、预加载荷;在全平面工况内,二次因素对相位器响应速度的影响呈复杂的非线性;叶片力臂较大时,叶...     

润滑油灰分对GPF过滤效率影响的试验研究

基于润滑油掺烧快速老化方法,在发动机台架上研究灰分对GPF背压和发动机动力性的影响;基于世界统一的轻型车测试循(WLTC)整车试验和实际道路测试(RDE)研究了灰分对GPF过滤效率的影响.结果表明:灰分沉积会提高发动机的排气背压,降低发动机的动力性,60 g灰分量时背压最大升高8.8 kPa,扭矩下降3.7 N·m;WLTC工况第一阶段PN排放贡献率大于90％,且WLTC和RDE工况少量灰分即可显著提高GPF对PN的过滤效率,3 g灰分量下过滤效率可达96.6％;过滤效率随着灰分量的增加而增大,60 g灰分样件的PN过滤效率达到99.6％.     

活塞敲击引起的缸套振动响应对缸套水侧空化的影响研究

为研究活塞侧击引起的缸套振动响应对柴油机缸套水侧空化状况的影响,以某国Ⅵ水冷柴油机为研究对象,结合结构动力学与计算流体力学,对缸套表面振动与其水侧流体动力学行为进行耦合分析.基于柴油机试验台架实测了缸套壁面振动,对应建立了柴油机气缸总成瞬态动力学模型,结合仿真与实测振动响应研究了活塞侧击作用下的缸套振动特性.然后,将瞬态动力学计算结果以动网格的形式输入二维冷却水套模型中进行数值模拟,研究了缸套振动形式、水套厚度和出口压力等因素对空化的影响.结果表明,缸套在活塞侧向力作用下的高频振动与其结构固有模态有关,缸套的高频模态振动和冷却水套厚度对缸套水侧的空化现象影响显著.提高冷却水套出口压力可小幅削减空化强度,而增加水套厚度对缸套水侧空化的抑制作用更为明显.     

用CMAC神经网络精确控制汽车空燃比

基本CMAC神经网络和变增益补偿的控制策略在发动机空燃比控制中具有良好的精度和自适应性。在研究该策略的基础上，对其基函数和学习算法进行了改进，分析了喷油过程特性，并考察了随机工况和过渡工况下的瞬态空燃比控制精度。在相同条件下的MATIAB仿真表明，随机工况和过渡工况空然比误差的相对标准差均控制在2％以内，控制精度显提高。     

用深滚压技术提高曲轴疲劳强度的应用研究

发动机曲轴圆角采用深滚压工艺可大幅提高曲轴疲劳强度。通过对370Q型汽油机、376Q型汽油机和376Q型柴油机进行的曲轴负荷分析、强度估算及弯曲疲劳强度试验表明,与未滚压曲轴相比,经圆角滚压的曲轴疲劳强度增加92．3％,安全系数由1．18增加到2．28。     

通信对抗目标选择与任务分配评估指标体系研究

通信对抗干扰目标选择和任务分配是通信对抗作战效能评估的重要内容.在深入研究通信对抗战术战法的基础上,建立通信对抗目标选择和任务分配评估指标体系,并通过算法模型对其进行量化分析和评估; 提出干扰压制强度F 的概念,并建立在各种电波传播方式下F的简化模型,使得对干扰任务分配的评估分析更加科学合理.     

基于CPU供电电压常见故障探讨

以Intel mobile P3和815芯片组为核心构造的P3主板为例,介绍其CPU核心工作电压产生的原理和相关重要参数,同时分析在实际应用中对CPU核心工作电压产生故障原因进行快速定位和诊断,并介绍相关解决措施.