A universal joint is a device that transmits the power of a combat vehicle engine to a cooling fan. The power of the engine is transmitted to the universal joint as it is without buffering, and play occurs at the joint between the drive shaft connected to the engine and the driven shaft connected to the cooling fan according to the usage time. Accordingly, the universal joint is periodically replaced, and the criterion for this is the degree of torsion of the universal joint. However, if the universal joint is not properly maintained during the replacement cycle, damage to the universal joint as well as damage to the surrounding power supply may occur. Accordingly, a backlash measuring device was developed to determine the limit of durability of the universal joint, and the limit of durability was derived through regression analysis of the backlash value according to the use time obtained from the accelerated life test.

Universal joint damage occurred during the operation of a combat vehicle. Damage to the internal bushing and cracks of the rubber cover occurred, and a design change was promoted based on the cause analysis and improvement measures. The failure of the bushing is due to the occurrence of expansion due to fatigue load when the rotation proceeds in the presence of the assembly clearance of the cross joint. In addition, cracks in the rubber cover are caused by the deterioration of the intermetallic rubber surface. Through this failure mechanism analysis, severe durability factors were selected and accelerated durability tests were conducted. In this paper, the final limit life of universal joints can be evaluated through accelerated endurance tests. Furthermore, the endurance life of the product before the change and the endurance life of the product after the change are compared to prove the improvement effect through design changes.

The battle vehicle has six types of indicators attached to the instrument panel in consideration of the special battlefield environment. However, many problems of moisture occurred during the operation of combat vehicles. These moisture phenomena can adversely affect aesthetics and functionality. Moisture is generated on the instrument panel due to the inflow of external moist air, the desorption of the moist air inside the parts, and the fluctuation of the dew point temperature. In this paper, we try to derive the root cause of various moisture generation and provide an improvement measures for moisture control. Therefore, the failure mechanism of the instrument panel may be analyzed and the design may be changed depending on the failure factor. Furthermore, the effect of the design change is verified, and the humidity performance is evaluated.

The premature failure of the universal joint connecting the drive gear box and the cooling fan caused a deterioration in serviceability and operability. Universal joint is a device that transmits engine power to a cooling fan. Internal pin breakage and shaft separation can cause secondary damage such as cooling fan malfunction and radiator damage caused by component failure. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the damage phenomenon of universal joints caused by bundles in SPVs and to improve them. In order to verify the improvement, a single part test and a system conformance test were conducted, and durability test was conducted to confirm the improvement effect on the improved prototype. Through these, the effects of increasing the durability of the improved product were estimated.

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.

In this paper, we compared and analyzed the performance of the GPS L1/L2 signal with GPS L1 using the navigation system. Generally the GPS receiver calculates the position of the satellite by using the ephemeris data recevied from GSP Satellites, and also calculates the position of its own using the pseudorange. This paper provides an overview of the device which can receive an GPS L1/L2, and compares the GPS L1 with the GPS L2 signal power using the simulator. It was confirmed that the GPS L1/L2 receiver and the GPS L1 receiver met the requirements of standards and it is similar to the navigation performance of the GPS L1 Receiver with the GPS L1/L2 receiver. It was also confirmed that the GPS L2 band can not correct ionospheric error in the navigation system of the combat vehicle.

During the field operation of the Korean MBT(Main Battle Tank), the multi-smoke projectile launching system failed to function. As a result of conducting analysis, it was confirm that the gear shaft of reducer was failed. Therefore, a study on improvement in impact resistance of the reducer was conducted. The reducer was improved impact resistance by changing the design and material of gear shaft. The reliability of modified reducer was investigated by finite element analysis, performance and environmental tests. As a result of analysis, a strength of the modified gear shaft was improved by about 20 times than before improvement. The results of performance and environmental test show that the modified reducer is applicable for Korean MBT under the severe conditions. The quality improvement of multi-smoke projectile launching system contributes to survivability of Korean MBT.