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The topic of this paper is to deal with the filtering of medium and high frequency excitations generated by electrified powertrains. It is now recognized that the whining noise generated by the electromagnetic forces and/or the meshing process of the transmission can propagate to the car-body through the rubber mounts. In the design phase, the prediction of the structure borne contribution requires a good knowledge of the dynamic behavior of the rubber mounts. The main issue is the stiffness of the mounts which cannot be modeled as pure springs. In fact, the dynamic behavior of a mount is governed by the material rheology and its internal resonances. The work presented in this paper proposes a simulation workflow for the rubber mounts dynamic model and a methodology for the dynamic stiffness measurement including the sensitivity with the preload and with the amplitude of the excitation. Finally, experimental and digital data are compared to assess the simulation method.

The recent use of electric motors for vehicle propulsion has stimulated the development of numerical methodologies to predict their noise and vibration behavior. These simulations generally use models based on an ideal electric motor. But sometimes acceleration and noise measurements on electric motors show unexpected harmonics that can generate acoustic issues. These harmonics are mainly due to the deviation of the manufactured parts from the nominal dimensions of the ideal machine. The rotor eccentricities are one of these deviations with an impact on acoustics of electric motors. Thus, the measurement of the rotor eccentricity becomes relevant to understand the phenomenon, quantify the deviation and then to use this data as an input in the numerical models. An innovative measurement method of rotor eccentricities using fiber optic displacement sensors is proposed.