Measurement and Analysis Technology

In addition to the specially designed test benches, the following measuring and analysis equipment is available at the FKFS:

  • Testing track in Malmsheim
  • Testing Track Papenburg (rental)
  • Reverberation room for acoustic tests of vehicles
  • Acoustics lab
  • Concave acoustic mirror (Video, 32 MB):

Sound measurement with acoustic mirror at a wing mirror in the aeroacoustic wind tunnel

Operating vibration analysis at a vehicle door (with flow in the aeroacoustic wind tunnel)

  • Acoustic lab measurement technique:

Microphones, acceleration sensors, electrodynamic shakers, impulse hammer kits, sound intensity probes, binaural recording and analysis systems ('artificial heads'), laser measurement technology (LDV, displacement measurement)

  • Frontend-based multi-channel data acquisition systems
  • Multi-channel FFT analyzers
  • Multi-channel digital data recorders
  • One-third octave analyzers - order analysis systems
  • Signal analysis software (commercial tools and special internal developments), sound design, psychoacoustics (ArtemiS)
  • Modal analysis (LMS) (Video, 7 MB): Modal analysis of a complete vehicle)
  • operational vibration analysis (LMS)
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