Improvement on dynamic characteristics of hydroformed Engine Cradle with FEA

하이드로포밍 엔진 서브프레임의 동특성 개선

  • 진경수 (현대하이스코 기술연구소 연구개발팀) ;
  • 김효섭 (현대하이스코 기술연구소 연구개발팀) ;
  • 김윤규 (현대하이스코 기술연구소 연구개발팀) ;
  • 나상묵 (현대하이스코 기술연구소)
  • Published : 2007.11.15

Abstract

Application of hydroforming technology for Engine Cradle has done much to reduce the weight of it. In most cases, hydroformed member of Engine Cradle is made in one-piece. And this method cause a limeted design that amount of expansion at the center portion of the member is not enough to meet the required performance. This limited design leads to decrease the dynamic characteristics of Engine Cradle. In this paper, comparative analyses of conventional stamped engine cradle and hydroformed cradle of one-piece were conducted using Normal Mode analysis and FRF(Frequancy Response Function)analysis. Finally, to improve the disadvantage mentioned above, hydroformed member of 3-pieces was proposed.

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