| Abstract: | This paper adopts free interface modal synthesis method to divide the whole automobile model into many sub-structures and establish dynamical equations of automobile nonlinear coupled system. The Monte Carlo method is used to simulate the spectrum of the random excitation of the road and the engine. Based on the automobile dynamical equations, a simulation is carried out within time domain and frequency domain on the characteristic of vibration due to the excitation of automobile wheel and the engine. The results are verified by bench experiment to make the research more practicable. In order to do research of rubber hysteresis’ influence on automobile dynamic property, Poincare diagrams and amplitude frequency characteristic curves were drawn with automobile linear and nonlinear models. The results show that the nonlinear dynamical model concerning rubber hysteresis not only can improve the simulation accuracy, but also is beneficial to find some complex nonlinear dynamical behaviors of vehicles. |
