The first step was based on the designed overlap distance, where the inner belt lip is pressed down by the rigid glass and the contact load is measured. In the second step, the acceleration was measured while sliding the glass at the same speed in the SSP-04 machine (Figure 14).To validate the CAE model, the results of VDA 230-206 from Figure 12 were simulated. For the CAE analysis, a commercialized finite element analysis software, Abaqus/Standard (Dassault Systemes) was used. The results obtained from the CAE model are compared with the test results in Figure 15 and Table 9, showing acceleration prediction error 0f 12%–59% and frequency prediction error of 57%–65%. Although the error ranges were large to take the absolute value, however, the tendency of the magnitude of the acceleration and frequency was similar to the test results; therefore, the developed CAE model was considered sufficient to be used as an auxiliary tool for designing the shape of inner belt weatherstrip to make a decision based on a relative comparison.
