An experimental procedure to obtain sound power level of tyre/road noise under Coast-By conditions

The rolling noise from tyre–pavement interaction represents the greatest sound contribution from a vehicle when cruising at a high speed. To evaluate the sound levels from this source, existing standardized methods that establish different measurement procedures in both the immediate tyre surroundings, for example the Close-Proximity method, as well as at greater distances, as the Coast-By method. A fundamental parameter that can quantify the sound generation of a source is its sound power level. The standardized methods establish procedures to measure the sound pressure level but not the power level of a tyre as a noise source. For this reason, this paper presents a novel methodology based on sound pressure measurements to obtain the sound power level that a vehicle emits in Coast-By conditions, where noise is generated at tyre/road interaction. The paper describes the testing procedure used to obtain the sound power level, and it is accompanied by a mathematical simulation that studies the feasibility of the proposal. Finally, the proposed methodology is further validated through a field study.     

Noise emission of road vehicles: Reconstitution of the acoustic signature

The paper describes a model that can be used to reconstitute the acoustic signature (sound pressure level) of a moving road vehicle. Account is taken of the Doppler and ground effects and of the directional characteristics of the noise emitted by the vehicle. The variations of the usual noise indices (maximum noise level, equivalent noise level due to the passing by of the vehicle) with the different parameters concerned, as determined by the modal, are considered and such variations compared with experimental results. It is shown, on the basis of the assumptions made, how a monopole source provides a good representation of a road vehicle. Finally an evaluation is made of the accuracy with which the apparent acoustic power of a vehicle can be determined.     

Development and calibration of acoustic video camera system for moving vehicles

In this paper, a new acoustic video camera system is developed and its calibration method is established. This system is built based on binocular vision and acoustical holography technology. With binocular vision method, the spatial distance between the microphone array and the moving vehicles is obtained, and the sound reconstruction plane can be established closely to the moving vehicle surface automatically. Then the sound video is regenerated closely to the moving vehicles accurately by acoustic holography method. With this system, the moving and stationary sound sources are treated differently and automatically, which makes the sound visualization of moving vehicles much quicker, more intuitively, and accurately. To verify this system, experiments for a stationary speaker and a non-stationary speaker are carried out. Further verification experiments for outdoor moving vehicle are also conducted. Successful video visualization results not only confirm the validity of the system but also suggest that this system can be a potential useful tool in vehicle's noise identification because it allows the users to find out the noise sources by the videos easily. We believe the newly developed system will be of great potential in moving vehicles' noise identification and control.     

Research on the procedure for analyzing the sound quality contribution of sound sources and its application

Transfer path analysis (TPA) plays an important role for identifying and quantifying the contribution by airborne and structure-borne in the automotive industry. The main bottleneck of the TPA method is the test time consumption and complex procedure. It becomes a key target in many applications to find out the source with dominant contribution to overall noise rather than to identify each source. In recent years the contribution pattern of sources to the vehicle overall interior noise has changed with the reduction of engine noise, which masks all other sources. The panel radiation noise of vehicle body could not be ignored. There is an increasing demand for analyzing the sound quality contribution of sound sources in simple ways. The procedure for analyzing sound quality contribution of panel radiation noise is suggested in this study, in which an operational path analysis (OPA) method combined with partial singular value decomposition (PSVD) analysis is applied and sound quality objective assessment is introduced. The experimental research for verifying the procedure is finished, from which the source with largest sound quality contribution is picked up from three sources. For engineering application, the sound quality contributions of panels to the interior noise of a micro commercial vehicle are analyzed by using the procedure. By investigating the contributions of sound sources to each sound quality attribute, the dominant sound source is determined.     

The simulation of acoustic radiation from a moving line source with variable speed

The purpose of this work is to simulate and investigate the sound field generated by a moving line source with finite length and variable speed. Expect for the variation of the acoustic pressure at the specific field point, the distribution of the surface pressure along the surface of the line source was also considered. For achieving this purpose, a numerical method which combines the Time Domain Boundary Element Method (TDBEM) and moving sound source theory was developed in the present work. After comparing the results with the constant and the variable speed case, it showed that the effect of the variable speed not only influenced the variation rate of the frequency modulation, i.e., Doppler effect, but also the time about the maximum acoustic pressure being observed. In addition, the simulation results also presented that the difference as to the amplitude variation of the acoustic pressure still existed between the moving case and the stationary case even if the length of the line source is very long.     

Optimisation of ground attenuation for moving sound sources

In an earlier study, Attenborough and Li [Attenborough K, Li, KM. Ground effect for A-weighted noise in the presence of turbulence and refraction. J Acoust Soc Am 102:1997;1013-22] derived a closed form analytical formula to calculate optimum ground parameters for reducing the A-weighted noise due to a stationary point source. This paper extends this earlier study by deriving an expression to calculate the sound field due to a source moving at a constant speed above a ground surface. An A-weighted mean-square sound pressure has been derived that enables one to estimate the sound exposure levels of a moving source. Numerical calculations for a realistic range of speeds show the influence of the source motion on the noise levels. Although the predicted effects on the ground attenuation are moderate, they are significant at a relatively low Mach number. In addition, the sensitivity to the atmospheric turbulence and the geometrical parameters tends to be altered by the source motion. On the other hand, it is demonstrated that the optimum ground parameters are similar for stationary and moving sources.     

匀加速运动声源的声场建模及其数值算法研究

针对匀加速运动点声源的声场特性与其运动状态密切相关这一问题,提出匀加速直线运动状态下点声源的声场计算方法。利用此方法建立了匀加速直线运动时点声源的声压模型,对模型中的关键参数声矢量R进行数值解析,并对声压进行数值分析仿真,得出匀加速直线运动时固定接收点的声压数值计算方法。用此方法对固定接收点位置的匀加速点声源声压进行声场建模,结果表明:在声源接近接收者一定距离以后,声压明显增大;在此距离之外,距离对声压的影响不大。     

The influence of turbulence on noise propagation from a point source above a flat ground surface

The presence of turbulence in the atmosphere affects the interaction between an acoustic wave and the ground surface. The noise attenuation by the ground in the presence of atmospheric turbulence is smaller than in non-turbulent atmosphere.A simple engineering model of noise propagation above a flat ground surface, for stationary and moving point sources, has been proposed. The model takes into account the air absorption and ground effect in the presence of turbulence.As well as parameters for type of ground and air absorption, the model introduces two adjustable parameters which must be deduced from in situ measurements at two ranges or two heights. The model’s free parameters have been obtained as a function of the resultant sound speed gradient on the basis of the field measurements performed for a stationary noise source. Also, using field data for a vehicle moving at steady speeds up to 100 km/h, the model has been verified for a moving point source.     

The identification of tyre induced vehicle interior noise

Sound transmission into a vehicle is classified as either airborne or structure borne sound. From the point view of noise control, the reduction of noise transferred by different paths requires different solutions. Coherence function analysis is often used to identify transmission paths. However it can be difficult to separate the airborne from structure borne components. The principle of acoustic reciprocity offers a convenient method for overcoming this difficulty. The principal states that the transfer function between an acoustic volume velocity source and an acoustic receiver is independent of a reversal of the position of source and receiver. The work done on this study involves exciting a stationary tyre and measuring the surface velocity of the tyre at a number of discrete points. The acoustic transfer functions between each point on the tyre and a receiver point are measured reciprocally. Two sets of measurements are then combined to yield a measure of the sound pressure due to a point force on the tyre via the acoustic transmission path only. This technique also provides information on the relative contributions of various regions of the tyre wall to the resultant noise. Also the sound radiation characteristics, the horn effect, and resonance at the wheel housing are identified through the reciprocal measurement.     

Method of control of the noise level of road vehicles in use

The elaboration of the method of control of noise generated by moving road vehicles has been made possible by using previous measurements of external noise produced by each of those particular vehicles. The results have made it possible to lay down the requirements for the design of specialised instrumentation capable of making such measurements. The advantage of this development is that it makes it possible for inexperienced technical staff to obtain the required acoustic measurements. The previously employed methods of noise prediction have required preceisely defined measuring conditions at the measuring site. The measurements, besides being laborious and time-consuming, give little information concerning the technical condition of the vehicle. On the contrary, with the method presented in this paper it is possible to measure not only the sound pressure level of the general external noise of the vehicle but also the band levels in the two frequency bands which are characteristic of the working engine at a definite speed of rotation, thus giving a preliminary estimation of the vehicle's noisiness. Defining the limiting values for noise level and band levels will enable excessively noisy vehicles to be eliminated.The results of measurements obtained with the above technique for various groups of vehicles are presented in this paper.     

基于时域多普勒修正的运动声全息识别方法

由于运动声源测量信号中多普勒效应的存在,一般声全息方法无法直接使用,而阵列信号波束成形处理方法无法进行定量分析.本方法建立了基于测量面、辐射面和全息面的运动学几何关系,提出了声源与测量信号之间的非线性时间映射方法,基于运动声源的声源特征函数,构造了消除多普勒效应的全息面时域声压分布.全息重建得到运动声源表面有效声压分布,实现了对主要声源处声压幅值的定量估计.实际运动声源的测量实验结果证明了该方法的有效性.     

A study on the random array generation method for moving sound source identification

Based on the problem that the generating method of random array structure is inefficient,a method is proposed to generate the random target arrays by using coaxial circular array in the polar coordinates in the premise that the array angular resolution of source identification is guaranteed.According to the principle of moving sound source identification,this work deduces the basic non-equidistance coaxial circular rings'radius,and generates target random arrays which were suitable for moving sound source identification through array partitioning,condition filtering in the polar coordinates and simulation evaluation.Finally,numerical simulation and moving car sound source identification test have been done.The analytical results show that using this method to generate random array is effective.Compared with the traditional regular arrays,the target random array has more accurate moving sound source identification performance.     

Automated measuring system for sound power measurement

It is sometimes important to know the sound power radiated from a sound source so that, for example, the solution noise abatement can be carried out on the basis of the sound power radiated.Measurement of the sound power in general is carried out in a reverberant enclosure. This measuring method is classed as an indirect one in that the sound power is obtained via the sound pressure level. Consequently, in order to determine the sound power radiated as precisely as possible, some measurement procedures for obtaining the space-average sound pressure have been devised. However, the procedure, which involves moving the measuring microphone from point to point, is extremely tedious. Accordingly, if the system from data acquisition to data processing is automated, the work required for obtaining the space-average sound pressure will be considerably reduced, as will the time required for processing the data.The development of an automatic measuring system for sound power is discussed and it is shown that the sound power obtained with the system devised agrees well with that obtained by more familiar means.     

基于脉冲声分离的刚性球散射声控制

提出了一种基于脉冲声的三维空间中刚性球散射声分离方法,并利用前馈、固定系数控制方式对分离出的散射声进行有源控制,抑制散射声强度,实现了刚性球散射体在观测点处“声学不可见”。该方法利用脉冲信号作为初级噪声,通过有无刚性球时传声器采集脉冲信号的差值确定散射声大小,实现散射声与声源直达声的分离。对分离出的散射声进行多通道有源控制以验证该文所提分离方法及控制系统的有效性。实验结果表明,700~1000 Hz范围内,有源控制开启后,双通道散射声的平均降噪量大于5 dB,多通道散射声的平均降噪量大于8 dB,且误差传声器处采集的残余声场与无刚性球时采集的初级声场信号波形基本一致,实现了刚性球散射体在误差传声器处“声学不可见”。此外,参考传声器布放位置的选取问题也在该文做了详细讨论。     

Prediction of intake noise of an automotive engine in run-up condition

It is very important to predict the radiated noise from the engine intake system for the effective noise control and virtual prototyping of in-cavity and outdoor noise of a vehicle. To this end, one should precisely measure the in-duct acoustic source parameters of the intake system, viz., source strength and source impedance. Usually, the noise radiation characteristics need to be expressed as a function of engine speed. In this study, acoustic source parameters of an engine intake system under engine run-up condition were measured by using the direct method. Direct method employed two external loudspeakers, turned on simultaneously, and three microphones for the separation of upstream and downstream wave components. It was noted that the frequency spectra of source impedance hardly changes with the increase of engine speed. Utilizing this fact, source strength under the engine run-up condition was calculated by assuming invariant source impedance. Predicted insertion loss and radiated sound pressure level using the measured source parameters were compared with those of measured data and predicted data using several idealized source models, which have been adopted for the calculations. A reasonably good agreement was observed between measured sound spectra at the intake orifice and predicted one using the measured source data. It was shown that the source data obtained by the present method yielded a far better prediction accuracy than those by the idealized source models.     

Evaluation of noise from air-conditioning systems—A draft proposal

This paper discusses the practical evaluation of noise levels generated by air-conditioning and ventilating systems inside buildings. The results of this work are incorporated in a Draft Italian Standard. The criterion for evaluation is based on the difference between the total sound pressure level in the room when the noise source is working, and the background noise level. The allowable difference must decrease with the value of the background noise level. The measured sound pressure level is corrected according to the type of noise and to the acoustical characteristics of the room; impulsive noises should not be present in the system.At present this Draft Proposal, which has been developed by a Working Group of the Italian Standard Institution (UNI), is under discussion.     

Effects of acoustic source and filtering on time-of-flight measurements

Time-of-flight (TOF) measurements are valuable in the estimation of distances, displacements and velocities of moving objects, phase differences of wave pulses, temperature of the atmosphere, and so on. The effects of sound source on time-of-flight measurements have been investigated in this paper. The sound sources considered are: electric horn, impact noise source, aerodynamic noise from a free jet, and the Hartmann whistle. The focus of the present study is to highlight the advantage of using Hartmann whistle for TOF measurements as this device is simple and attractive, without any moving parts. Time-of-flight of sound waves is calculated by cross-correlating the signals received by two microphones. Further, the effect of signal filtering on TOF measurements is demonstrated. The results indicate that the sound source has considerable effect on TOF measurements, and the accuracy can be significantly enhanced by appropriate signal conditioning. Hartmann whistle proves to be a good candidate as an acoustic source for TOF measurement.     

某乘用车加速工况车内轰鸣声诊断分析及控制方法

该文针对某乘用车加速工况出现的轰鸣声进行诊断分析与控制。首先通过主观评价确定问题工况,通过实车测试发现2400 r/min左右车内存在明显轰鸣声。利用阶次分析、模态分析及错频验证可知,发动机激励经悬置传递副车架,引起副车架的共振,进而传递到车内引起轰鸣声。最后通过传递分析及柔性连接点导纳法,优化副车架橡胶衬套结构。结果表明,优化后在2400 r/min声压总级与2阶声压差值为7.5 dB(A);声压总级较原状态降低2 d B(A),2阶噪声降低7.8 d B(A),声压总级和2阶噪声声压差值增大,轰鸣声明显减小,主观评价可接受。     

拖曳阵被动合成孔径目标深度稳健估计

使用水下无人平台作为载体的拖曳阵进行被动目标深度估计具有灵活性高和隐蔽性好的优点,针对实际应用中存在的平台自噪声和阵列瞬时随机加速度扰动问题,提出了一种稳健的目标深度估计方法。该方法分为三个步骤,首先对阵元接收信号进行自适应噪声抵消和相位抖动滤波,然后对声压进行距离积分实现简正波模态估计,最后计算模态匹配度,最大值对应的深度为目标深度估计结果。仿真表明在干扰背景下该方法的目标深度估计稳健性优于传统方法,声源频率、合成孔径距离和信干比决定了目标深度估计误差。利用实验数据验证了该方法对水下低频线谱声源的深度估计能力。