Interference Images:
Noise-Emission of a Car
Inspecting the Engine
Let's observe the noise emission of a car. It is hard to decide, which parts of aggregates excite large quantities of noise. The front-compartment of the car is opened. We expected to see the cylinder-head and the motor. Instead of, we see something different: maximum quantities of noise come as ground reflexions from the left bottom side of the car. We remember to find cars beeing very quiet in fresh snow. Maybe, the bottom side produces the most noise. Note also the week reflexion at the front-compartment.
Measuring object and integrated noise emission (blue: max., yellow: min.), PSI-Tools algorithm EXP, contrast-factor 0.8 (see PSI-Help).
Data: motor runs with 2000 rpm, PSI-PORTKONFIG=2189742931, hardware-filter (-2 dB): 2x TP 5000 Hz, 2x HP 3000 Hz, 16 channels, 20 kSps, calculation integral 1.2 kS = 2 revolutions, files: 2300_1k2.chl, 2300_lg1.ini, 2300_lg1.bmp, comments in file 13_02_97.txt. Corresponding movie motor.mp4* and sound motor.wav.
b) 
a) A pseudo-3D-image gives an impression of fields with week interferences. Note the quiet field within motor-room and compartment.
b) Motorbloc in detail. Surprising for us is the absence of noise comming from the cylinder head.
The picture partially shows only the elbow in front of the cylinder head. It is possible, that this motor works incorrect. We find a hard, noisy knocking comming from left.
Measuring arrangement. The microphone array is 4x4 orthogonal. Microphon distance is 30 cm each; microphon's bottom line in 1,08 m hight, distance to mapping layer 1.75 m
Horizontal Views
For the following scenes the microphone array was standing on the bottom, planar to the car. The task again is, to find out locations of excitement. May be, this question can be important to construct more noiseless cars.
Frontal view. We find excitement locations as directed noise and as ground reflexion. Note, that the possibility to match photos against noise images in the minute is not more precise then +/-5 deg or some centimeters in a distance of some meters.
Data: vorn.ini, vorn.bmp, 17_02_97.txt, 50kSps, 1000 Samples used, 2xHP 3kHz, distance 3 meter.
Side view. We find strongest noise emissions comming from exhaust pipe or the exhaust silencer. Data: links.ini, links.bmp, 17_02_97.txt, 50kSps, 1000 Samples used, HP 1kHz/-40dB, distance 5 meter.
Larger screen with another color map. The right emission is not clear. Is it an aliasing artefact or is it reality?
Slow-motion movies
Movie with 1000 pictures per second (p/sec), integrated over 10 msec each
Data: channel sample rate 50kSps, 16 channels, measuring distance 5 meters, 1276 rpm, idle motion/neutral gear, color sequence to heigher emissions: gray-yellow-green-red-blue.
Find from left to right the pre-silencer, the catalyser, the final silencer and the exhaust pipe as maximum emission regions.
1000 img/sec, integration over 10 msec, 47 images, file size 690k/1.6MB
(Zipped AVI) replaced*
1000 img/sec, integration over 10 msec; 171 images, file size 2.6/10 MB
(Zipped AVI) replaced*
Data: Channel Data File = ...\FIESTA\17_02_97\LINKS.CHL, Palette DEZENT.PAL, X1, Y1, Z1 = -1.5000, -0.5000, -5.0000, X2, Y2, Z2 = 3.0000, 1.5000, -5.0000, Medial Speed = 340.00 m/s, Algorithmus = 'Maximum Peak', Start sample = 0, End sample = 9000, Sample rate 50kSps, li50_500.ini
View under the car. We find the exciting place between exhaust pipe and the pre-silencer. May be it can be the leackage between the pre-silencers cover and the silencer themselve.
File created 10:49 21.01.1997
*Zipped AVIs replaced by MP4: 11.11.2023