著者

朝賀 泰男 西垣 英一 青井 一郎 杉浦 豪軌 槇野 浩司

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.853, pp.17-00088-17-00088, 2017 (Released:2017-09-25)

参考文献数

13

被引用文献数

1

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As manufacturing has begun to move from mass production to mass customization, manufacturing industries are currently constructing the architecture to provide wide variety of products in countries around the world. Modular design and standardization is effective for mass customization. In recent years, modular design techniques have been researched in vehicle development. Then, car manufacturers have been announcing their own architecture about the car design. We have focused on pipe-based components as the standardized member of body structure. Since the pipe is a general-purpose member, we can get them easily. In this study, we have developed new design techniques for body structure consist of the pipe-based standardized components. Firstly, we have designed base frame layout by topology optimization formulated Min-Max approach for multiple load cases. Secondly, we have calculated cross-sectional design parameters by discrete design value table and fully stressed design. Using these techniques based on modular design rules, we can obtain body structure consisting of standardized components which are subjected to stress lower than the yield strength. As a case study, we have applied our unique modular design techniques to the rear body structure model.

著者

西垣 英一 朝賀 泰男

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.853, pp.17-00065-17-00065, 2017 (Released:2017-09-25)

参考文献数

13

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This paper describes a modularization method based on the creation of a new layout structure by combining topology optimization using beam elements and clustering analysis. By setting candidates for frame members in smaller units than parts and performing topology optimization using beam elements, a frame structure of new layouts as an aggregate of fine frame members can be created. For each fine frame member, connectivity as a structure in the entire frame structure is expressed as Design Structure Matrix (DSM). By performing hierarchical clustering on this DSM, clusters of fine frame members are formed as parts, and modules as these aggregate can be found out. Since this is hierarchically determined as a dendrogram, it is possible to determine the number of module divisions of the product configuration depending on the granularity of the cluster. Furthermore, by advancing each fine cluster towards the trunk above the tree diagram, an assembly process with less rework is obtained. Unlike the method of deriving the optimal solution for the product with existing structure, this research proposes a method to derive concurrently the new frame structure and construction of parts and module decomposition which minimizes rework. By validation analysis using a simple box structure, the effectiveness of this proposed method has been confirmed.