Study on the effect of piston skirt profile on the vibration behavior of non-road high pressure common rail diesel engine

The piston secondary motion is the most predominant excitation source for the mechanical vibration of diesel engine, which is directly affected by the piston profile. The effects of piston skirt profile on the dynamic behavior of piston and the vibration characteristics of engine block is studied synthetically by the method of a combination of experimental test and numerical simulation. The temperature distribution of the piston top surface under rated working condition is tested by a hardness plug, which is used as the boundary condition to carry out the thermodynamic simulation of diesel engine working process, to obtain the hot profile of the piston. Then, the dynamics model of piston assemblies are formally established, and the skirt profiles of different bump positions of the piston skirt are optimally designed. Based on the above analysis, a comprehensive study on the influence of bump position on the piston dynamic behavior is carried out. Then, applying the modal testing method for the engine block and crankshaft to establish the elastic multi-body dynamics model of diesel engine and load the piston slapping force at different bump positions, the vibration response of the surface structure under the action of different piston slapping forces is also studied. The results show that the mechanical vibration of engine block will become more severe with the hiking up of bump position at the piston skirt. Also, the vibration behavior of the engine block in the middle and high frequency section is very sensitive to the bump position of the piston skirt, especially in the frequency range of 1600 Hz-3150 Hz. In addition, vibration noise performance can be significantly improved by adjusting the bump position of piston skirt downwards. Particularly, the vibration noise performance can be best achieved when the bump position of piston skirt is 5 mm. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.