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Lightweight Design of an Outer Tie Rod Using Meta-Model Based Optimization Technique

메타모델기반최적화를 이용한 아우터타이로드의 경량화 설계

  • 김영준 ((주)센트랄 중앙연구소) ;
  • 박순형 (동아대학교 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 이권희 (동아대학교 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 박영철 (동아대학교 대학원 기계공학과)
  • Received : 2015.09.11
  • Accepted : 2015.11.06
  • Published : 2015.11.30

Abstract

The outer tie rod is one of the part of steering system, the optimization process was executed to find the lightweight design. The inner tie rod was considered in the optimum design of an outer tie rod. it could be closer to the test condition than in the case of considering outer tie rod only. The aluminum forging material was considered as a weight reduction proposal. The target of optimization was the shape of the minimum weight to resist at the load of buckling. RSM and Kriging interpolation method were applied as a optimization method to consider the nonlinear shape optimization problem. Then, 16.3%, 16.6% of weight reduction was obtained from the result comparing with that of the initial model. The results of meta model optimization was compared with that of finite element method. The error values of buckling load estimation were 2.6%, 2.04%. and those of weight estimation were 0.17%, 0.13%. Therefore, it seemed that the result of Kriging model could be obtained closer to optimum value than that of RSM model.

조향계부품인 아우터타이로드 조립체에 대하여 경량화를 위한 최적화를 수행하였다. 지금까지의 아우터타이로드의 최적설계해석에서는 인너타이로드가 제외되었으나 본 연구에서는 조립체에 대한 최적화를 실시함으로써 실제 시험모드와 동일한 조건을 묘사하였다. 경량화 재료는 알루미늄 단조재이며 최적화 대상은 좌굴하중에 견딜수 있는 최소 중량의 아우터 타이로드 조립체의 형상이다. 형상 최적화 기법으로는 비선형 모델의 최적화 기법인 반응표면법과 크리깅 내삽법을 적용하였으며 초기모델 대비 각각 16.3%, 16.6%의 중량 감소 효과를 얻을 수 있었다. 근사모델로부터 얻은 최적설계 모델은 유한요소 해석을 통하여 검토한 결과 좌굴하중 예측치는 각각 2.6% 2.04% 중량예측치는 0.17% 0.13%의 오차를 가지고 있어 크리깅 기법 근사 모델이 더욱 최적해에 가까운 결과를 도출할 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

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