Based on air spring shock experiment, equivalent viscous damping replacing the air hysteresis, air viscosity and material damping and the control volume method, the paper simulates the vibration and shock process of the air spring of different wall thicknesses with Abaqus/Explicit software. The kinetic motion of the air spring and the airbag state are simulated numerically and compared with the experiment. Good agreement between the simulation and experiment proves that the equivalent damping and control volume method can reflect the vibration and shock state of the air spring well. This paper provide an efficient prediction method to design and analyze the mechanical characteristics of airbag and analogous structures.