%0 Journal Article %T Natural Frequency Region 每 Fluid %A Naizheng Guo %A Ping Lou %A Robert K Luo %A Weidong Wang %J Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit %@ 2041-3017 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0954409718788902 %X This paper presents an integrated procedure for dynamic impact predictions and an experimental verification of rubber每metal bonded components with fluid to be used as a potential application in rail vehicle suspensions. There are three steps involved in the procedure. First, a quasi-static analysis was performed to verify the elastic properties of the rubber material using hyperelastic models. Second, a dynamic impact evaluation on selected hydro-mounts without fluid was conducted using the Natural Frequency Region (NFR) approach. Finally, a coupled NFR (with Fluid-Structural-Interaction) approach, different from the usual viscoelastic methods, was initiated to predict the dynamic impact responses of these components with the fluid in time domain. All the analyses have been validated with experimental data. The first two stages have been briefly described and the third stage is detailed in this paper. It should be noted that a powerful computer with multi-central processing units is essential to obtain a reasonable result within an acceptable time frame. It took approximately 40ˋh wall-clock time to complete the analysis using a workstation with 10 central processing units. It has been suggested that the natural frequency region每fluid每structure interaction methodology is reliable and could be used at the design stage and for engineering applications %K Fluid每structure interaction %K dynamic impact %K rubber damping %K rubber hydro-mounts %K computational fluid dynamics %K natural frequency region method %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0954409718788902