This paper develops a LED fishing lamp mounting system which slides in and out a LED fishing lamp mounting rack according to fishing situation of a fishing boat. Sliding mechanism of the LED fishing lamp mounting system is realized with a rack and pinion. Components of the LED fishing lamp mounting system are modeled with finite elements. In addition, the LED fishing lamp mounting system is modeled with rigid bodies. A rigid body model of the LED fishing lamp mounting system is interfaced with finite element component models to develop a computational model of the LED fishing lamp mounting system. A simulation is performed with the developed computational model for dynamic stress analysis of the LED fishing lamp mounting system. A bouncing, rolling, and pitching motion which describe a very rough sea are used as input conditions for the simulation. Six cases are considered for the simulation based on the number of fishing lamp and the location of sliding rack.

A system approach for studying the engine dynamic characteristics requires a cranktrain flexible body dynamic model including crankshaft, connecting rod and piston. By using a multi-body dynamics code, LMS Virtual Lab, rigid body dynamic model and flexible multi-body dynamic model were established. From these models, the dynamic loads acting on the crankshaft were calculated. Rigid model for V12 engine cranktrain with components connected by kinematical constraints was transformed into a flexible model by replacing rigid crankshaft and connecting rods with flexible ones. And to secure the credibility of flexible body model, three kinds of flexible models were tried, i.e. a model with a fully flexible crankshaft, model with a partially flexible crankshaft(1/6 of the whole length), and a partial detailed flexible model(with finer meshes). The results from each model were compared, and a partial detailed model with finer meshes was found to give reasonable stress values within relatively short period of computing time.