Eccentricity Effects on NVH Performance of Interior Permanent Magnets Machines for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Abstract

For the hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) applications, the electric machine drive unit system provides the main noise source, especially in the presence of faults. Eccentricity is one of the most common faults, which is mainly caused by the motors' package design and assembling process. There are four main types of eccentricity for motors: static offset, dynamic offset, static tilt and dynamic tilt, which are presented and analyzed. Both two-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimentional (3D) finite element analysis (FEA) are utilized in the electromagnetic field analysis for an Interior Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor. The corresponding methodologies for the mesh and force mapping to the mechanical FEA for the NVH analysis are presented. The NVH test shows that both 2D and 3D FEA can provide reasonable accuracy for the motor eccentricity fault analysis. The 2D FEA is the most common method used in the design optimization and early performance prediction for electrical. For the 3D FEA, due to the high requirement for the computer hardware and computation capability, it is usually used in the final validation for electrical machines' performance. The sensitivity of motor performance versus the airgap heights and eccentricities are studied.