Developing a Custom Data Acquisition Software Package for a Self-contained Acoustic Test Facility

This paper provides an overview of a custom software developed to obtain measurement data in a self-contained acoustic test facility system used for conducting random incidence sound absorption tests and sound transmission loss tests on small samples in accordance with SAE J2883 and J1400 standards, respectively. Special features have been incorporated in the software for the user to identify anomalies due to extraneous noise intrusion and thereby to obtain good data. The paper discusses the thoughts behind developing user-friendly algorithms and graphical user interfaces (GUI) for the sound generation, control, data acquisition, signal processing, and identifying anomalies.