A Study of Experimental Acoustic Modal Analysis of Automotive Interior Acoustic Field Coupled with the Body Structure

The accuracy of the vibro-acoustic coupled system model for the low frequency range depends on how accurately modal characteristics are represented at the input, output, and the structure-acoustic coupling surface. This study focus on extracting the detailed acoustic mode shapes on the coupling surface for the improvement of the model accuracy. In order to extract the acoustic mode shapes on the coupling surface from an experimental test, the applied method is initially evaluated by FE model results. As the next step, the same procedure in the previous step is applied to the test data of an actual vehicle for the purpose of extracting the detailed acoustic mode shapes at the coupling surface of the body structure and cabin interior acoustic field.