A survey on design methodology and performance analysis of a marine engine mount

The main responsibility of an engine mount as a component which attaches the engine to chassis is control and absorption of different resources of vibration. Design process of marine engine mounts is one of main issues in the recent years in marine industries. Hence, a deep study in diverse design methodologies and performance analysis would be necessary to suggest an appropriate process for engine mount design. This study based on researches on design methods, suggest design and selection algorithm for marine engine mounts in four steps: primarily design, conceptual design, detail design, and finally performance assessment. Afterwards, the suggested process will imply for an internal marine engine mount with 200 hp. Based on achieved results, the final designed engine mount for this case in critical situation will have safety factor of 2.1 in static analysis and it also have a desired distance from excited frequency in frequency analysis. Finally, dynamic modeling results for this engine mount will be presented based on designed GUI by research team.