Weatherstrips protect noise, dust, rain and wind out of the automobiles. There are various section shapes acoording to the usage. Most of computer simulation about the deformation of weatherstrip part has been conducted by using implicit code. But the...
Weatherstrips protect noise, dust, rain and wind out of the automobiles. There are various section shapes acoording to the usage. Most of computer simulation about the deformation of weatherstrip part has been conducted by using implicit code. But the analyses are restricted to simple shaped or 2 dimensional cross section of weatherstrip. In the case that the model is too huge and time complicated explicit code is much more effective in the aspect of accuracy and computational effort. Four types of finite element model are proposed in this study. In addition to, the reaction force and deformation patterns are compared between the simulation and the experiment.