Investigation of the piston vibration modes of high-performance 2.2 L gasoline engine under different skirt lengths

This paper aims to perform modal and harmonic response analyses to show how the piston skirt length reacts. The studied aluminium piston was generated in CATIA CAD Software and consequentially this was simulated in ANSYS software using modal and harmonic response tools. The piston finite element model was built to predict the basic modal parameters such as: natural frequencies, vibration modes and deformations. Different grid sensitivity tests have been done to improve the accuracy of the piston model. The piston with larger skirt has shown 77% higher vibration deformations than piston with smaller skirt. The proposed methodology can be easily used by a design engineer to perform dynamic behaviour studies of moving components and assemblies in Internal Combustion engines and not only.