COMPOSITION OF CHARACTERISTIC VEHICLE INTERIOR SOUND - DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WITH RESPECT TO THE POWER TRAIN

Abstract

Looking to worldwide automotive development strategies it must be recognized that development targets tend to unify.High vehicle perlormance and a superb quality are the leading tuture targets tor all car manulacturers.Therefore noise behaviour is undoubtedly an important topic tor passenger vehicle concepts.Nowadays it is a demand oi product marketing to tune the in-vehicle noise according to the vehicle type and the driving conditions.This article gives an overview of today s demands on noise quality.Computational sound synthesis as well as practical design methods are described.Technical measures to tulllill these demands will be figured out and examples of ditlerent hardware measures will be discussed.

Authors 1

1. Norbert W. Alt Aachen Department Noise

   FEV (Germany)

   Affiliation as printed

   Co. KG. Aachen. Germany

   Department Noise, Vibration and Harehness, FEV Motorentechnik GmbH