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Reducing the vibrations in the drivetrain is one of the prime necessities in today’s automobiles from NVH and strength perspectives. The virtual drivetrain simulation methodology to predict the driveline induced excitations transmitted to vehicle is developed for three cylinder engine using Adams View. The obtained mount forces from Adams dynamic simulation is correlated with the measured test data at vehicle level and the good correlation is observed. Paper discusses on the methodology of virtual drivetrain using Adams view and the correlation of measured dynamic mount forces with simulation results. This correlation gives the confidence that the developed simulation methodology can be used to get the mount forces of different orders from drivetrain.

A differential casing is one of the important elements in the vehicle power train, whose objective is to house differential gears and take different loads coming from these gears. The function of a differential is to drive a pair of wheels while allowing them to rotate at different speeds. While taking a turn, the outer wheel needs to travel more compared to the inner wheel. This is possible due to the differential which rotates them at different speeds. This Paper highlights a simplified methodology to capture the differential casing failure and to resolve the same. The methodology adopted was then correlated with the test measurements to increase the confidence. During physical tests, strains are measured at different orientations of the differential casing and correlated with simulation results.

Ride is an important attribute which must be accounted in the passenger segment vehicles. Excessive H point acceleration, Steering wheel acceleration, Pitch acceleration can reduce the comfort of the driver and the passengers during high frequency and low frequency rough road events. Excessive Understeer gradient, roll gradient, roll acceleration and Sprung mass lift could affect the Vehicle driver interaction during Steady state cornering, Braking and Step steer events. The concept architecture of the vehicle plays an important role in how comfort the vehicle will be. This paper discusses how to improve SUV ride performances by keeping handling performance attributes same or better than base vehicle. Multi Objective Optimization was carried out by keeping spring, bushing and damper characteristic as the design variables to avoid new system or component development time and cost.