Benefit of Psychoachoustic Analyzing Methods for Gear Noise Investigation

The article "Benefit of Psychoachoustic Analyzing Methods for Gear Noise Investigation" appeared in the August 2011 issue of Gear Technology.

Summary
This article provides an overview of the benefits of using psychoacoustic characteristics for describing gear noise. And with that, human hearing and the most important psychoacoustic values are introduced. Finally, results of noise tests with different gear sets aree presented. The tests are the basis for a correlation analysis between psychoacoustic values and gear characteristics.

Keywords
noise, inspection, psychoacoustic

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