Vibration isolators Advice of the week : Vibration isolators equidistant to the center of gravity and at the height of the crankshaft.
Vibration isolators are often installed on the engine brackets and below the crankshaft. Although this may be a practical and fast way of installing the vibration isolators, special caution must be considered so the stability of the suspended is assured.
An easy way to solve this situation is by placing the vibration isolators at the height of the crankshaft and equidistant to the center of gravity. This way we will assure that the suspended element will not be its own natural frequency.
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Raising the mounts to the height of the crankshaft improves the stability and vibration isolation. |
Brackets allowing the mounts receive equal load helps provide more stable suspended elements. |
AMC-MECANOCAUCHO application engineers can help by making 6dof calculations, where the optimum position of the mounts can be found, and simulations of displacement can be obtained.
| Natural frequencies and vibration modes. | Reaction to shocks in Displacement or load domain. |
In order to make this calculation, AMC-MECANOCAUCHO application engineers will require the following information:
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3D drawing.
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Total load.
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Center of gravity position.
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Possible position of mounts.
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Disturbing frequency.
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Shock magnitude, duration and sense.
Should you be interested in this topic do not hesitate to contact our applications engineers. They will be able to help and provide input. Contact form AMC-MECANOCAUCHO® Applications engineers.
