An optimal design was developed for housing of a 50-ton hydraulic breaker. A four-factor, two-level design was created using the full factorial design, and it was confirmed that the safety factor, the response value, exhibited a curvature. As the curvature was confirmed, a higher-order experiment, a response surface analysis was performed. Based on the Minitab"s optimized prediction of the safety factor and weight, the actual analysis was performed using ANSYS Workbench, the finite element analysis program. As a result, the safety factor was 2.03 and the weight was 3222.2 kg, which was almost consistent with the Minitab’s prediction. The safety factor decreased from 2.33 to 2.03 compared to that in the initial model, but the optimization model can also be judged as being safe because the safety factor was set to 2.00. The weight was reduced by 119.1 kg, from 3341.3 to 3222.2 kg.

The Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) stores the electric energy into the rotational kinetic energy of the rotor. The FESS uses housing components so that the rotor spins inside the housing where the vacuum is maintained. Thus, the housing component is exposed to the load due to this pressure difference, and designing the housing that can efficiently support this load is crucial. Meanwhile, in the situation wherein the rotor lifting force is blocked, the rotor drops and damages the system. Thus, it is necessary to equip a structure capable of supporting the corresponding impact of the rotor drop. In this study, the design of the housing components is described by considering the structural robustness of the housing components, under the atmospheric pressure and impact of the rotor drop. For the pressure load, structural analysis was conducted following the different housing lid shapes: concave, convex, and flat. For the impact of the rotor drop, the structural analysis was conducted following the different terminal velocities of the rotating rotor. As a result, the designed housing components comprise a concave housing lid and the safety suspension 1 mm beneath the rotor. Considering the results, it operates stably under the conditions stated above.