The design strategies and calculation methods for powertrain mounting system with multi-powertrain
by Da-Ming Chen; Wen-Bin Shangguan; Wei Zhang
International Journal of Vehicle Design (IJVD), Vol. 60, No. 1/2, 2012

Abstract: Multi-powertrain is defined as an engine plus different transmissions, or a transmission plus different engines in this paper. To reduce mount cost and production time, the mounts in a Powertrain Mounting System (PMS) with multi-powertrain should have the same stiffness or the same configurations. On the basis of this requirement, the design strategies and calculation methods for PMS with multi-powertrain are presented in this paper. In designing Multi-PMS (MPMS), an optimisation method to select mount stiffness in its Local Coordinate System (LCS) and locations based on the requirements for six rigid body modes and energy distributions of a PMS with multi-powertrain is developed. Then a procedure of designing Force vs. Displacement (F-D) relation for a mount to control the motion of each powertrain in multi-powertrain is proposed.

Online publication date: Tue, 23-Apr-2013

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