2. | Page 1 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Boundary conditions The external surface of the solid model need to be surround by proper boundary conditions The external surface of the solid model need to be surround by proper boundary conditions The sound sources (loudspeakers) were modeled as areas where the normal acceleration is known as a function of frequency The sound sources (loudspeakers) were modeled as areas where the normal acceleration is known as a function of frequency The internal surfaces of the car are modeled as sourfaces of known complex acoustical impedence as a function of frequency The internal surfaces of the car are modeled as sourfaces of known complex acoustical impedence as a function of frequency Some surfaces were modeled as rigid walls (glass, steel parts not covered by sound absorbing materials) Some surfaces were modeled as rigid walls (glass, steel parts not covered by sound absorbing materials) The values of acceleration and impedance were measured in situ thanks to novel hardware and software tools The values of acceleration and impedance were measured in situ thanks to novel hardware and software tools

3. | Page 2 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Reference measurements in the car Hardware: PC and audio interface Edirol FA-101 Firewire sound card: 10 in / 10 out 24 bit, 192 kHz ASIO and WMA

4. | Page 3 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Reference measurements in the car Software Aurora Plugins Generate Sweep Convolution / Deconvolution Impulse Response extraction Cross Functions

5. | Page 4 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Measurement process The desidered result is the linear impulse response of the acoustic propagation h(t). It can be recovered by knowing the test signal x(t) and the measured system output y(t). It is necessary to exclude the effect of the not-linear part K and of the background noise n(t).

6. | Page 5 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Test signal: Log Sine Sweep x(t) is a sine signal, which frequency is varied exponentially with time, starting at f 1 and ending at f 2.

7. | Page 6 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Test Signal – x(t)

8. | Page 7 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Deconvolution of Log Sine Sweep The time reversal mirror technique is employed: the systems impulse response is obtained by convolving the measured signal y(t) with the time-reversal of the test signal x(-t). As the log sine sweep does not have a white spectrum, proper equalization is required Test Signal x(t)Inverse Filter z(t)

9. | Page 8 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Measured signal - y(t) The not-linear behaviour of the loudspeaker causes many harmonics to appear The not-linear behaviour of the loudspeaker causes many harmonics to appear

10. | Page 9 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Inverse Filter – z(t) The deconvolution of the IR is obtained convolving the measured signal y(t) with the inverse filter z(t) [equalized, time-reversed x(t)]

11. | Page 10 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Result of the deconvolution The last impulse response is the linear one, the preceding are the harmonics distortion products of various orders 1° 2° 3° 5°

12. | Page 11 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential Maximum Lenght Sequence vs. Sweep

13. | Page 12 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential In-situ measurement of the acoustical properties The measurement of the acoustical impedance is performed employing a Microflown pressure-velocity probe The measurement of the acoustical impedance is performed employing a Microflown pressure-velocity probe

14. | Page 13 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential In-situ measurement of the acoustical properties The probe needs to be calibrated for proper gain and phase matching at low frequency The probe needs to be calibrated for proper gain and phase matching at low frequency Calibration over a reflecting surface Free-Field calibration

15. | Page 14 25.01.2007 Angelo Farina UNIPR / ASK Industries | All Rights Reserved | Confidential In-situ measurement of the acoustical properties A specific software (Aurora plugin) has been developed for speeding up both calibration and measurement of the acoustical properties with the new pressure-velocity probe technique A specific software (Aurora plugin) has been developed for speeding up both calibration and measurement of the acoustical properties with the new pressure-velocity probe technique Input parameters Results