Modeling of Firewall Panel with Laminated Metal using Experiment and Numerical Methods

For the automotive industry, the sound quality inside the vehicles is very important. This importance has increased significantly in the last years within the globally competitive automotive market.

The interior vibroacoustic behavior depends on the dynamic characteristics of the car body. Several treatments are used to reduce the structural energy of the body panels. For instance, it may be applied passive damping technology, by use of viscoelastic materials, to control their noise and vibrations.

This paper presents a comparison of the vibroacoustic characteristics of two firewall panels, made with normal and quiet steel. Experimental and numerical (FEM and BEM) techniques are used to get modal and acoustic data.