The objective of the present work is to study the vehicle suspension as a vibro-acoustic system of high complexity, consisting of many sub-systems with fundamentally different acoustical properties. In a parallel numerical and experimental modelling effort, important contributions to the understanding of its behaviour have been achieved. These findings are based on a balance between component investigations and global modelling of the complete system; they have been formulated for the transmission of both tyre-road excitation and friction-induced vibrations in the brake system. Initially an experimental study was conducted on a full vehicle test rig studying the broadband interior brake noise problem of, here named, roughness noise. The purpose of the study was twofold: first, to determine if the transmission from the source to the interior of the vehicle was structure-borne; second, to study the complexity of the suspension as a vibro-acoustic system. Parameters a_ecting the vibro-acoustic source were varied to gain understanding of the source mechanisms. This experimental study laid the foundation of the first part of this thesis (paper A) and provided the directions for the second part, the development of a mathematical modelling approach (paper B and C). In these two papers, methods for analysing the complex vibro-acoustic transfer of structure-borne sound in a vehicle suspension system were developed. The last part was then focussed on the wheel rim influence on the vibro-acoustic behaviour (paper D) of the suspension system. As a whole, the work clearly demonstrates that it is possible to conduct component studies of subsystems in the vehicle suspension system; and from these component studies it is possible draw conclusions that very well may avoid severe degradations in the interior noise of future vehicle generations. / <p>QC 20130503</p>

Noise pollution from road traffic is one of the greatest environmental issues in modern day, and the social cost for road traffic noise was estimated to over 16 billion SEK per year in Sweden in2014. Passive or active control methods can be used to reduce the noise. Active control methods or active noise control is more suitable for attenuating noise in lower frequencies. Active noise control reduces noise by eliminating the noise with a secondary source. There are different control strategies to construct an active noise control system, where the update of the secondary sourceis controlled by an algorithm. There are several different algorithms that are possible to use, and one option is to use a Feedforward Filtered-X Least-Mean-Square (FXLMS) algorithm. It uses control positions where the noise is meant to be reduced and reference signals that measure the noise upstream prior the secondary source. FXLMS also uses a model of the secondary source path to the control position in order to ensure convergence of the algorithm. Although the use of multiple reference signals increases the accuracy of the algorithm, it also increases the convergence time and the practical cost of such an installation. Unfortunately, it can require many reference signals to obtain a sufficient noise reduction when the unwanted noise source is complex and has multiple propagation paths.This study investigates the possibility of producing a new, reduced set of reference signals with a linear combination of the original reference signals that still contain the majority of information needed for suficient noise reduction. This new set of reference signals are sometimes called virtual reference signals. Three different methods of virtual reference signals are analysed; first a constant method using singular-value decomposition on the covariance of the reference signals, second another constant method using singular-value decomposition on the covariance of response estimate from each corresponding reference signal, third an adaptive algorithm updating the linear combination to adapt for incoming data. The different strategies are tested on road test measurements at three different constant speeds, 40km=h; 80km=h and 120km=h, and on data generated from a numerical vehicle model in COMSOL.The results from the analysis indicates that the virtual reference signals could sufficiently reproduce information from the original reference signals to obtain a similar noise reduction with fewer reference signals. However, the virtual reference signals with the adaptive algorithm could not manage to track a transient system where the signal amplitudes are varying over time. Further work is needed to analyse the limits and requirements to obtain virtual reference signals that can represent and track a system even for transient events.

A road can be considered as a noise source based on its traffic density. Intuition says, a road, with closely spaced vehicles, can be classified as a line source and for sparsely spaced vehicles, a collection of point sources. This study deals with the classification of a stretch of highway into either a line source or a collection of point sources based on the sound pressure measured by 7 microphones placed at certain distances from the highway and on the law of attenuation applicable. The results indicate a strong dependence of source classification with the traffic density. / En väg kan betraktas som en bullerkälla baserat på dess trafikintensitet. Intuitivt bör en väg med hög trafikintensitet klassificeras som en linjekälla och för få fordon en samling punktkällor. Denna studie handlar om klassificeringen av en motorvägssträcka till antingen en linjekälla eller en samling punktkällor baserat på ljudtrycket uppmätt med sju mikrofoner placerade på varierande avstånd från motorvägen. Resultaten visar att källklassificeringen är beroende av trafiktätheten och av avståndet till vägen.

Current European legislation aims to limit vehicle noise emissions since many people are exposed to road traffic noise in urban areas. Vehicle pass-by noise is measured according to the international standard ISO 362 in Europe. More recent investigations of urban traffic have led to the proposal of a revised ISO 362 which includes a constant-speed test in addition to the traditional accelerated test in order to determine the pass-by noise value. In order to meet the legal pass-by noise requirements, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers must analyse and quantify vehicle noise source characteristics during the development phase of the vehicle. In addition, predictive tools need to be available for the estimation of the final pass-by noise value. This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of vehicle pass-by noise and of the characteristics of the vehicle noise sources contributing to pass-by noise. This is supported through an extensive literature review in which current pass-by noise prediction methods are reviewed as well. Furthermore, three vehicle noise sources are replicated experimentally under laboratory conditions. This involves an orifice noise source, represented by a specially designed loudspeaker on a moving trolley, shell noise, represented by a metal cylinder structure, and tyre cavity and sidewall noise, represented by an annular membrane mounted on a tyre-like structure. The experimentally determined directivity characteristics of the acoustically excited noise sources are utilised in the pass-by noise prediction method. The predictive results are validated against experimental measurements of the three vehicle-like noise sources made within an anechoic chamber.

L’émergence de la notion de développement durable est actuellement un point d’inflexion pour les politiques publiques. Pour renouveler son mode de gouvernance et afin d’introduire le développement durable dans les politiques des villes, les pays du Nord et du Sud ont intégré ce concept dans des textes législatifs majeurs. En France comme en Algérie, nous nous intéressons à l’évolution des mesures urbanistiques de réduction des nuisances urbaines, en particulier, le bruit. En France, la loi SRU incarne, par les Plans Locaux d’Urbanisme (PLU) et des Plans d’Aménagement et de Développement Durable (PADD), les principes de l’approche transversale des problématiques urbaines et le renforcement de la concertation avec les populations locales. En Algérie, loi n° 01-20 relative à l’aménagement et au développement durable du territoire n’a pas amené à des changements profonds sur les POS, mais elle leur a apporté certaines modifications pour leur permettre de suivre le sens du développement durable et la démocratie participative. L’enjeu de ce travail est d’étudier l’articulation entre le bruit et la planification urbaine à travers les documents d’urbanisme respectifs de chaque pays (PLU en France et POS en Algérie). La question principale est d’examiner la pertinence des nouvelles dispositions urbanistiques en ce qui concerne la réduction du bruit routier et d’évaluer leur mise en œuvre effective en termes de politiques et actions locales. Il s’agit de définir l’apport réel des changements institutionnels et instrumentaux motivés par le développement durable. Nous souhaitons également évaluer les avancées de l’action publique dans l’amélioration de la qualité environnementale. Pour saisir cette problématique, nous interrogeons, à travers les indicateurs de développement durable, les changements stratégiques, méthodologiques et culturels de la planification urbaine avec l’exemple de la prise en compte du bruit routier. Pour analyser les freins qui limitent ou qui risquent de limiter l’efficacité environnementale des documents d’urbanisme, nous proposons de rapprocher certains regards disciplinaires (urbanisme, droit et analyse des politiques publiques, environnement). Notre méthodologie se base aussi sur les entretiens avec les acteurs de la ville, les documents d’urbanisme locaux et des visites de terrains de trois communes franciliennes (Fontenay-sous-Bois, Saint-Denis, Boulogne Billancourt) et une commune algéroise (El Mohammadia) / The emergence of the sustainable development, thanks to the recent innovations in French and Algerian laws, is integrated progressively into political views and actions. For French urban planning, the SRU law and its action plans (PLU and PADD) propose a new transversal approach, making coherence between urbanism and environment. For Algerian urban planning, the law n° 01-20 of town planning and sustainable development doesn’t totally change the POS but it brought about changes in them in order to follow the direction of the sustainable development and the participative democracy. The target of this work is to study the link between the noise and the urban planning through. The respective documents of town planning of every country (PLU in France and POS in Algeria). The main question is to examine the relevance of the new urbanistic capacities with regards to the reduction of the road noise and to estimate their actual implementation in terms of politics and local actions. Our cross-disciplinary view allows a deep and complete analysis of this environment and public politics. This approach requires interviews with political and technical staff. It also requires following the elaboration of the urban planning instruments in three cities of Ile-de-France (Fontenay-sous-Bois, Saint-Denis, Boulogne Billancourt) and one city in Algiers (El Mohammadia).The analysis could allow to highlight the different measures in the field of the road noise, and to identify impediments in order to shape a typology of best practices