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The noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) plays an important role in the transmission area of automotive industry. To understand all the impacts on the gearbox’s global dynamic behavior it is necessary to gain information from a simplified model, create methods and get an appropriate and well correlated results with the experiment. The method itself can be afterwards reused for more complex transmission, which could be supported by other measurements. This paper deals with creation of a gearbox’s simplified model, including essential mechanisms as gear mesh stiffness, backlash, bearing stiffness and modal properties of the main components. Except for the presented model, more models with different difficulty levels are used. Numerical results are compared with data from experiment with good correlation.

The paper presents advanced computational models suitable for the development of a modern powertrain in the field of noise and vibration. The aim is to decide how detailed the model should be to correctly describe the vibrational and acoustic performance of the powertrain. In general, the advanced computational model of the powertrain -- a virtual powertrain -- is developed as a powerful tool for the solution of structural and also thermal and fatigue problems. Main results from the field of vibrations are verified by technical experiments using laser vibration technique and strain gauges. Afterwards, the simpler computational models are compared with the virtual powertrain and the results are discussed. The virtual powertrain is assembled, as well as numerically solved, in Multi Body System extended by user written subroutines. The virtual engine results are validated by measurements performed on compression ignition in-line six-cylinder engine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]