On the need for bump event correction in vibration test profiles representing road excitations in automobiles

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 279-295

  Steinwolf, A ^a   Giacomin, J A ^a   Staszewski, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bump events; In house testing; Probability density function tails; Shocks; Vehicle; Vibration test profile; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GROUND VEHICLES; IIR FILTERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BUMP EVENT CORRECTION; FOURIER SYNTHESIS; ROAD EXCITATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE VALUE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOBILE TESTING;

EID: 0036964561     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954407021529110     Document Type: Article

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