Characterisation of Structure-Borne Sound Source Using Reception Plate Method

A laboratory-based experiment procedure of reception platemethod for structure-borne sound source characterisation is reported in this paper. he method uses the assumption that the input power from the source installed on the plate is equal to the power dissipated by the plate. In this experiment, rectangular plates having high and low mobility relative to that of the source were used as the reception plates and a small electric fan motor was acting as the structure-borne source. he data representing the source characteristics, namely, the free velocity and the sourcemobility, were obtained and compared with those fromdirectmeasurement. Assumptions and constraints employing this method are discussed