In the development of eco-friendly vehicles such as electric vehicles, weight reduction has become a very important design target. Seat weight reduction is very important in vehicle weight reduction. In this study, the energy absorption characteristics of Almag material, an alloy of aluminum and magnesium, and mild steel SAFH440, SAFH590, SAFC780, and SAFH980 were analyzed to obtain a true stress versus true strain curve that was correlated with the test. By performing the seat frame structure analysis using the obtained analysis material property, it was possible to compare the deformation between lightweight material, Almag and mild steel materials. In addition, it was confirmed that the weight reduction effect was 25.8% when applying Almag, an equivalent lightweight material that gives the same maximum deformation as SAFH980, a high-strength mild steel.

주각부는 상부의 강구조와 철근콘크리트조 기초의 접합부로써 매우 중요한 부분이다. 현재 국내외 강구조 골조 공사에서 사용되는 주각부의 형식은 크게 구분하여 노출형 주각부 근권형 주각부, 매입형 주각부라고 할 수 있다. 이 중에서 부재의 재사용 및 재활용을 최우선으로 고려한다면 노출형 주각부가 가장 유리하다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 노출형 주각부의 시공 성능 및 역학적 성능을 획기적으로 개선할 수 있는 형태의 강구조 선형상 노출형 주각부를 개발하고, 구조 성능 평가를 위한 탄소성 재하실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 개발된 신형상 노출형 주각부는 수평 방향과 수직 방향의 시공 오차를 현장에서 간단히 흡수하여 기존 노출형 주각부의 시공 불량을 사전에 방지함으로써 구조 성능을 발휘한다. 또한 에너지 흡수형 고력볼트를 사용함으로써 변형 성능이 증가함을 알 수 있었다.

This paper is to study the energy absorption characteristics of CF/Epoxy(Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Resin) laminated shell with the various curvatures subjected to transverse impact loadings under the low impact velocity in consideration of design of structural members for use of transportation machine, which are consisted of the characteristics of high stiffness, strength and lightweight. The curvature radius are associated with the energy absorption characteristics of CF/Epoxy laminated shell which is brittleness material. In all tests, maximum load of CF/Epoxy laminated plate is higher than that of laminated shell with curvature, but maximum deflection is lower. And then absorbed energy of laminated shell with curvature is higher than laminated plate(curvature radius is unlimited), As curvature radius is increased, the absorbed energy is increased in laminated shell with curvature.

Composites have wide applications in aerospace vehicles and automobiles because of the inherent flexibility in their design lot improved material properties. Composite tubes in particular, are potential candidates for their use as energy absorbing elements in crashworthiness applications due to their high specific energy absorbing capacity and the stroke efficiency. Their failure mechanism however is highly complicated and rather difficult to analyze. This includes fracture in fibers, in the matrix and in the fiber-matrix interface in tension, compression and shear. The purpose of this study is to investigate the energy absorption characteristics of Gr/E(Graphite/Epoxy) tubes on static and impact tests. The collapse characteristics and energy absorption of a variety of tubes have been examined. Changes in the lay-up which increased the modulus increased the energy absorption of the tubes. Based on the test results, the following remarks can be made: Among CA15, CA00 and CA90 curves the CA90 tube exhibits the highest crush load throughout the whole crush process, and max load increases as interlaminar number increase. Among all the tubes type CC90 has the largest specific crushing stress of 52.60 kJ/kg which is much larger than other tubes.