Abstract: | The large shake of an SUV driver''s seat during acceleration has been investigated based on numerical simulations and experiments. The results show that the vibration acceleration peak at the No. 2 seat installation point far exceeds the target value near 44.5 Hz, which is the main cause of the seat shake.Combining the ideal hook arrangement position obtained from the average driving DOF displacement (ADDOFD) method, the exhaust system structure and the underbody space, the hook position optimization has been achieved. In addition, thanks to the optimization of hook size and overlapped structure, the first order local modes of the exhaust system hooks have been improved significantly. After optimization, the peak value of the vibration transfer function at each hook-seat mounting point has been reduced by up to 36.7%.The road test results show that the vibration acceleration peak at the measured point on the seat back has decreased from 1.19 mm/s2 to 0.66 mm/s2, and the subjective evaluation results meet the design requirement. |