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The present work describes the modeling and analysis processes of a medium sized truck manufactured in Brazil with regard to comfort behavior. The vehicle model includes Hotchkiss suspensions front and rear with shackle and with a double stage with bump stops at the rear. It is also included frame flexibility in ADAMS in an approximate manner based on a Finite Element Analysis of the frame. Nonlinear shock absorber curves are also represented for the vehicle and cab suspensions. Viscoelastic bushings for cab and powertrain suspension are also included. Random track profile is generated as input and vehicle comfort is described in terms of the ISO 2631-85 Standard. The effect on vehicle comfort of changing a design parameter can be predicted in the model and verified experimentally.

We are living an ecologic decade. The aspects concerning comfort and safety are emphasized, including also the commercial vehicles. The interaction between mass-machine-environment is very important. The acoustic comfort belongs to this context. This paper presents the acoustic development relative to the internal noise reduction of a road bus. The internal noise of automotive vehicles is composed by two parcels: the structureborne noise, which is characterized by the low frequencies and the airborne noise which arrives at the passenger compartment passing directly through the divisory between passenger compartment and engine compartment; this path is preferred by the high frequencies. In this work we present the technics we have applied to reduce noise coming from both paths. The quantification of the obtained results is elaborated through the measurements of sound pressure levels, specially the weighting curve “A” for the overall noise.