How to Select Power-Train Isolators for Good Performance and Long Service Life

This paper presents those factors that must be considered in selecting elastomeric isolators for power-train applications in order to develop an isolation system that will be both effective and provide sufficient service life.

Those factors include the dynamic modes that are the most disturbing, support structure requirements, isolator location and orientation, the advantage of decoupled modes, stability considerations, environmental factors, factors that affect fatigue life, and analysis procedure.