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Filled-rubber is widely used in automotive applications for noise and vibration isolation. The inherent material characteristics of filled-rubber make it suitable for these applications, but its complicated nonlinear behavior under both static and dynamic loading can make material modeling a challenge. This paper presents a two-element overlay technique to capture the nonlinear vibration amplitude dependency of a carbon-filled rubber material commonly referred to as the “Payne Effect.” This overlay technique is practically applied to predict the nonlinear dynamic stiffness and damping loss characteristics of a carbon-filled rubber body cab mount component from a body-on-frame vehicle calculated as a function of large static pre-strain, dynamic excitation frequency, and small dynamic strain amplitude in a single analysis.

Understanding the resonant behavior of vehicle closures such as doors, hoods, trunks, and rear lift gates can be critical to achieve structure-borne noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) performance requirements, particularly below 100Hz. Nearly all closure systems have elastomer weatherstrip components that create a viscoelastic boundary condition along a continuous line around its perimeter and is capable of influencing the resonant behavior of the closure system. This paper outlines an approach to simulate the static and dynamic characteristics of a closed-cell Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) foam rubber weatherstrip component that is first subjected to a large-strain quasi-static preload with a small-strain sinusoidal dynamic load superimposed. An outline of a theoretical approach using “phi-functions” as developed by K.N. Morman Jr., and J.C.