This paper describes a pass-by measurement technique that has been developed for localization and visualization of noise sources on moving rail vehicles using beamforming. Based on measurements with an array of microphones, while also measuring the position of the vehicle, the technique calculates the contribution of noise, and visualizes it as a contour plot on top of a picture of the train. Deconvolution is applied in addition to traditional beamforming in order to get an improved spatial resolution in the noise map. A set of measurements was made on two different types of regional trains on the Danish railway: the Oresund trains and the IR4 trains. The speed of all the trains was approximately 120 km/h. The results show that deconvolution is efficient for identifying wind noise on the pantograph of the Oresund trains. The IR4 trains turned out to have a strong source at the very front part of the train for frequencies around 600 Hz - 800 Hz with a radiated sound power that was approximately 5 dB above the noise radiated by the noisiest bogies. The cause of this noise is yet unknown, but a potential explanation could be an aerodynamic phenomenon at the front.


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