Identification of Axial Vibration Excitation Source in Vehicle Engine Crankshafts Using an Auto-regressive and Moving Average Model

Violent axial vibration of a vehicle engine crankshaft might lead to multiple defects to the engine.Much research on mechanism and control measures has been done on engines,such as using the dynamic stiffness matrix method,rayleigh differential method,and system matrix method.But the source of axial vibration has not been identified clearly because there are many excitation factors for the axial vibration of a crankshaft,such as coupled torsional-axial vibration and coupled bending-axial vibration,etc.In order to improve the calculation reliability and identify the excitation source of axial vibration of in vehicle engine crankshafts,this paper presents a method to identify the axial vibration excitation source of crankshafts for high speed diesel engines based on an auto-regressive and moving average（ARMA） model.Through determining initial moving average variables and measuring axial /bending/torsional vibrations of a crankshaft at the free-end of a 4-cylinder diesel engine,autoregressive spectrum analysis is applied to the measured vibration signal.The results show that the axial vibration of the crankshaft is mainly excited by coupled bending vibration at high speed.But at low speed,the axial vibration in some frequencies is excited primarily by torsional excitation.Through investigation of axial vibration source of engine crankshafts,calculation accuracy of vibration can be improved significantly.

Influence of the Hook Position on the Vertical Vibrations of an Automobile Exhaust System:Application of the Robust Optimization Design

A robust optimization design method is proposed to investigate the influence of the hook position on the vertical vibration(bending)of an automobile exhaust system.A block diagram for the robustness analysis of the exhaust system is initially constructed from the major affecting factors.Secondly,the second-order inertia force is set as the vibration excitation source of the exhaust system and the displacement of four hooks of the exhaust system is selected as the variable factor.Then tests are carried out to investigate the resulting vertical bending considering four influencing factors and three levels of analysis.Finally,a variance analysis of the vertical bending is performed.The present study provides a set of guidelines to control the key factors affecting the vibration of vehicle exhaust systems while proposing an effective method to reduce vehicle vibration and improve noise analysis。