Dowsett, A;
O'Boy, DJ;
Walsh, SJ;
Abolfathi, A;
Fisher, SA;
(2017)
The prediction of measurement variability in an automotive application by the use of a coherence formulation.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering
10.1177/0954407017734768.
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Abstract
Variability between nominally identical vehicles is an ever present problem in automotive vehicle design. In this paper it is shown that it is possible to quantify and, therefore, separate the measurement variability arising from a number of tests on an individual vehicle from the vehicle to vehicle variability arising from the manufacturing process from a series of controlled experiments. In this paper the coherence data is used to identify the measurement variability and, thus, to separate these two variability sources. In order to illustrate the methodology a range of nominally identical automotive vehicles have been tested for NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) variability by exciting the engine mount with an impact hammer and measuring the excitation force and corresponding velocity responses at different points on the vehicle. Normalised standard deviations were calculated for the transfer mobility data, giving variability values of 25.3 %, 33.5 % and 37.3 % for the responses taken at the Suspension Strut, Upper A Pillar and B Pillar respectively. The measurement variability was determined by taking repeat measurements on a single vehicle, and was found to be 2.9 %. The measurement variability predicted by the coherence data on the multi-vehicle tests was compared with the directly taken repeat measurements taken on a single vehicle and was shown to agree well with one another over the frequency range of interest.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The prediction of measurement variability in an automotive application by the use of a coherence formulation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0954407017734768 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0954407017734768 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Coherence, Variability, NVH, Measurement Error |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574476 |
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