Recently, the standards for vibration and noise have been steadily increasing to ensure a comfortable life on board. Reflecting this, vibration and noise regulations have been continuously strengthened. Various vibrations and noises occurring inside t...
Recently, the standards for vibration and noise have been steadily increasing to ensure a comfortable life on board. Reflecting this, vibration and noise regulations have been continuously strengthened. Various vibrations and noises occurring inside the ship directly affect the living and working environment on board, causing hearing loss and reduced work efficiency for the crew. Therefore, regulations on vibration and noise are being mandatorily applied, and the allowable standards are being further strengthened. To protect the crew and meet the enhanced allowable standards, it is essential to appropriately predict and establish measures to reduce vibration and noise during ship design. Predicting and managing the vibrations generated in ships at an appropriate level is a crucial design procedure. Furthermore, a design plan for controlling and managing ship vibration must be derived and applied with minimal time and cost to construct a low-vibration ship. Ship noise and vibration control is achieved by establishing measures using empirical methods and computer-aided engineering (CAE) predictions from the initial design stage and implementing follow-up measures based on measurement results after the ship is constructed. However, follow-up measures taken after ship construction can lead to increased construction costs. Therefore, reliable vibration analysis that can be quickly utilized from the initial design stage in the ship equipment industry is necessary. Elastic support mounting systems using vibration isolation rubber are known to be very economical and effective methods used in ships. The rigid body free vibration analysis, which models the entire mass as a single point mass, is very simple in modeling, and the analysis error is not significant because the stiffness of the equipment is much larger than the stiffness of the elastic support. Therefore, it can save a lot of time compared to performing finite element analysis (FEM) and can be quickly utilized. In this paper, the excitation frequency at major excitation sources in the ship will be calculated, followed by the free vibration modeling and analysis of ship equipment using elastic mount, and measurements will be conducted. The reliability will be verified by comparing the results of the analysis performed by the program with the analysis results and measurements. Furthermore, through these results, the re-selection and improvement of mounts to avoid resonance will be verified.