Influence of Multiharmonics Excitation on Rattle Noise in Automotive Gearboxes.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Acoustics and Vibration Volume 2011, Article ID 659797, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/659797 Research Article Influence of Multiharmonics Excitation on Rattle Noise in Automotive Gearboxes Y. Kadmiri,1, 2 J. Perret-Liaudet,1 E. Rigaud,1 A. Le Bot,1 and L. Vary2 1 Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systemes, UMR CNRS 5513, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Universite de Lyon, ` ´ 69130 Ecully, France 2 Renault S.A.S., Centre Technique, 91510 Lardy, France Correspondence should be addressed to Y. Kadmiri, younes.kadmiri@ec-lyon.fr Received 12 January 2011; Accepted 2 June 2011 Academic Editor: Kok Keong Choong Copyright © 2011 Y. Kadmiri et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We consider the automotive gearbox rattle noise resulting from vibro-impacts that can occur between the idle gears under excessive velocity fluctuations of the shaft-driving gears imposed by engine torque fluctuation. Even if the rattling phenomenon has no consequence on reliability, it may be particularly annoying for vehicle interior sound quality and acoustic comfort. The main parameters governing such kind of vibrations are the excitation source associated with engine torque fluctuation which can be modeled by an imposed displacement of the driveline, the inertia of the idle gear, the drag torque acting during the free flight motion, and the impact laws. In the case of rattle, it is reasonable to assume that duration of impacts between teeth is very short compared t