Archives of Acoustics, 42, 3, pp. 469–474, 2017
10.1515/aoa-2017-0049

Multifractal Nature of Diesel Engine Rattle Noise in Vehicle

Andrzej PUCHALSKI
University of Technology and Humanities in Radom
Poland

Iwona KOMORSKA
University of Technology and Humanities in Radom
Poland

The investigation results of the emission of noises accompanying the diesel engine powertrain running in unloaded condition at low or idle speed, are presented in the hereby paper. The multifractal nature of the tested signals was confirmed by means of two groups of parameters. The proposed local parameters are based on the distribution of the probability density of measures, segregated into subsets according to pointwise Holder exponents. The obtained spectra constitute a set of multifractal measures related to singularities representing the local scaling of measures in various points of the time series. Global parameters were defined on the basis of multifractal measures of the parametrised Renyi’s entropy. These are properties treating summarily the whole spectrum of the emitted noise and reflecting changes of the vibroacoustic energy levels generated by noise sources. The tests encompassing simultaneous application of both groups of parameters confirmed their efficiency in the comparative analysis as well as in the subjective assessment of the noise level generated in the drive system of vehicles with diesel engines. This opens new possibilities within the simulation range of vehicle noises, for the needs of constructing the passive and active reduction systems of the effects of the vibroacoustic energy propagation.
Keywords: mechanical noise and vibration; multifractal formalism; alpha-stable distributions
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DOI: 10.1515/aoa-2017-0049