Recent research on vehicle noise and vibration

Vehicle noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) is usually among the top five attributes in terms of its priority in the design of automotive vehicles. Its priority in other types of vehicles (e.g., aerospace) is also important. Like other attributes of safety, performance, dynamics, fuel economy, NVH has to be considered closely in the design process. This manuscript presents a summary of recent research in the general area of NVH with an emphasis in the automotive field. It follows up on a previous review and classifies the phenomena by the main sources of NVH into powertrain, road and tyre, wind and other NVH. The last includes brake and chassis, squeak and rattle, electromechanical NVH, exterior (or drive–by) NVH and others. The paper provides a review of some of the recent literature in this field.

Keywords: vehicle noise, vehicle vibration, harshness, NVH research, literature review, vehicle design, automobile industry, automotive research, powertrain, roads, vehicle tyres, wind, vehicle brakes, vehicle chassis, squeak and rattle, electromechanical NVH, exterior NVH