Vehicle noise and vibration refinement / edited by Xu Wang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- Rationale and history of vehicle noise and vibration refinement / X Wang -- Objectives and significance of vehicle noise and vibration refinement -- Scope of vehicle noise and vibration refinement -- The vehicle development process and vehicle noise and vibration refinement -- Vehicle noise and vibration term definitions -- History of motoring and vehicle refinement -- Target setting and benchmarking for vehicle noise and vibration refinement / X Wang -- Introduction -- Benchmarking of vehicle noise and vibration -- Target setting of vehicle noise and vibration -- Part II. Measurement and Modelling -- Vehicle vibration measurement and analysis / X Wang -- Introduction -- Hand sensing -- Basic vibration measurements -- Vibration response investigation and vibration test -- Environmental testing -- Mounting the test object -- Measuring complex elastic modulus -- Quoting vibration levels -- Vibration isolation -- The vibration absorber -- Case studies -- Bibliography -- Vehicle noise measurement and analysis / X Wang -- Introduction -- Sound fundamentals -- Vehicle noise -- Measuring microphones -- Measuring amplifiers -- Calibration -- Background noise -- Recording sound -- Analysis and presentation of noise data -- Artificial head technology and psychoacoustics -- Bibliography -- Random signal processing and spectrum analysis in vehicle noise and vibration refinement / X Wang -- Random data and process -- Correlation analysis -- Fourier series -- Spectral density analysis -- Relationship between correlation functions and spectral density functions -- Linear systems -- Weighting functions -- Relationship between the complex frequency response and impulsive response -- Frequency response functions -- Bibliography -- Theory and application of modal analysis in vehicle noise and vibration refinement / M Kronast -- Application of modal analysis in vehicle development -- Theory of modal analysis -- Methods for performing modal analysis -- Limitations and trends -- References -- Mid- and high-frequency problems in vehicle noise and vibration refinement - statistical energy analysis and wave approaches / X Wang -- Modal approach -- Energy sharing between two oscillators -- Energy exchange in multi-degree-of-freedom systems -- Wave approach to the statistical energy analysis (SEA) -- Procedures of statistical energy analysis approach -- Evaluation of the statistical energy analysis subsystem parameters -- Hybrid deterministic and statistical energy analysis approach -- Application example -- References -- Advanced simulation techniques in vehicle noise and vibration refinement / N Hampl -- Basic simulation techniques -- Frequency or time-domain methods -- Simulation process -- Application of virtual reality for vehicle noise and vibration refinement -- Conclusions -- Sources of further information and advice -- Advanced experimental techniques in vehicle noise and vibration refinement / T Ahlersmeyer -- Transfer path analysis technique -- Sound intensity technique for source identification -- Acoustic camera: beamforming and nea field acoustic holograph techniques for source diagnostics -- Laser techniques for dynamic analysis and source identification -- Sound quality and psychoacoustics measurement and analysis -- Ultra sound diagnostic techniques -- Advanced material testing techniques -- Advanced tachometer reference tracking techniques -- Part III. Noise and Vibration Refinement in Vehicle Systems -- Aerodynamic noise and its refinement in vehicles / S Watkins -- The importance of aerodynamic noise -- Aerodynamic noise sources: background -- Modeling, relevant theory and the possibilities of simulation -- Causes of hydrodynamic pressure fluctuations and their reduction -- Aeroacoustic measurement techniques and psychoacoustic analysis -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Active noise and vibration control in vehicles / S J Elliott -- Physical principles and limits of active control -- Control strategies -- Commercial systems -- Future trends -- Sources of further information and advice -- Noise and vibration refinement of powertrain systems in vehicles / D C Baillie -- Principles and methods -- Powertrain noise sources and paths -- Enablers and applications -- Future trends -- Conclusions -- Vehicle interior noise refinement - cabin sound package design and development / D Vige -- Internal noise sources in a vehicle -- Vehicle noise paths -- Basic principles -- Sound package solutions to reduce the interior noise -- Simulation methodologies for the interior noise -- Target setting and deployment on vehicle subsystems -- Conclusions -- Noise and vibration refinement of chassis and suspension / B Reff -- Road-induced noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) basic requirements and targets -- Foundations of road-induced noise, vibration and harshness -- The tyre: the most complex component? Suspension -- Mounts and bushes the art of isolation -- Future trends -- Body structure noise and vibration refinement / G M Goetchius -- Basic principles -- Global body stiffness -- Body attachment behaviour -- Body attachment design strategies -- Body panel behaviour -- Panel design strategies -- Future trends -- Conclusions -- Vehicle noise and vibration strategy-based diagnostics / X Wang -- Wheel and tire vibrations -- Balancing -- Driveline vibration -- Propshaft phasing.

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