Historical development of acoustic hemispheres has required steady flight of a rotorcraft vehicle across a large linear array of microphones. The US Army, NASA, and Navy recently conducted a rotorcraft acoustics flight test in which multiple “snapshot” microphone arrays were used alongside a traditional linear microphone array. The snapshot arrays allow for a near instantaneous capture of rotorcraft acoustic emissions, without the need for steady flight. Development of the snapshot array is contained herein, and an evaluation of effectiveness of the array during adverse weather conditions. The snapshot arrays captured significant variation in acoustic emissions throughout a single run and between multiple runs of similar conditions. Hemispheres were created and modelled in land-use planning software and an investigation of A-weighted Sound Exposure Level (SEL [dBA]) was conducted. Sideline predictions of SEL compared well (within 0.1 dBA) between traditional and snapshot arrays, while centre line locations were less favourable with a difference of 1.6 dBA. Future refinement is required for the snapshot array technique, including advanced design of microphone placement and employing a semiempirical method to interpolate between measurement points, instead of the linear frequency weighting conventionally employed.


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    Titel :

    EVALUATION OF ACOUSTIC SNAPSHOT ARRAYS FOR ROTORCRAFT SOURCE NOISE CHARACTERIZATION


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    European Rotorcraft Forum 2022 ; 2022 ; Winterthur, CH


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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