Identifying the frequency dependent material property of a hydraulic engine mount through an iterative procedure using 3D finite element modeling

Achieving very restricted noise, vibration and harshness targets in modern vehicles, makes using the hydraulic engine mount crucial. Hydraulic engine mounts have both solid and fluid media in their structures that make their dynamic behavior complex to figure out. We present a three-dimensional model of HEM with using finite element method that encompasses elastomeric material’s nonlinearity and fluid-structure-interaction. Dynamic equivalent modulus of elasticity for elastomeric material is identified through iterative model updating procedure. To do model updating, the results (here, namely, natural frequencies and frequency response function graphs) are compared with real hydraulic engine mount behavior that derived from modal tests. The results showed that the dynamic characteristic of elastomeric material is frequency dependent and can be divided into two distinct regions: below 30 Hz (low frequency) and above 30 Hz (high frequency) with different trends.