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This paper presents progressive techniques based on the previous SAE papers [1], [2] for vibration transmission analysis (VTA) on finite element (FE) model using Transfer Path Analysis (TPA). The techniques are: 1) a contribution calculation technique for structure with manifold and continuous transfer paths: 2) a visualization technique of the influence degree for efficient derivation of measures for response reduction. In VTA, influence degree of each DOF is calculated based on TPA. In order to understand characteristics of vibration transmission (VT) easily and visually by engineers, magnitude of influence degree is expressed by replacement to magnitude of displacement in the diagram of FE vibration shape. This visualization technique is applied to an automotive body structure. The proposed techniques are applied to automotive body structure consisting of members and panels. The members are such as pillars, cross members and side members, which are the main VT paths.

This paper describes a proposal of techniques to analyze transmission of vibration among the parts or components of an automotive body structure using Transfer Path Analysis (TPA) [1]. TPA has not been applied to automotive body structure itself. One of the reasons is troublesome processes on the application to be treated with a lot of transfer functions and transmitted forces at the conjunctions which are complexly assembled with many adjacent nodes. Therefore it would be difficult to detect highly contributed parts or components in the structure. Difficulties were resolved by introduction of a proper coordinate transformation of analytical degree of freedom (DOF) at the cross-section of parts or components in this study. These describe the transmission of vibration using physical aspects of vibration transmission theories familiar to engineers like those of beam or shell. Contribution analysis of vibration was carried out for its upper side and under side of the body structure.