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- 01 Challenges overview
- 01.1 Challenge – Cost reduction
- 01.10 Challenge – Modular & platform-based vehicles
- 01.11 Challenge – Customization & product variants
- 01.12 Challenge – Sustainability & recycling
- 01.13 Challenge – Infotainment & smart cabin systems
- 01.14 Challenge – Active noise control & sound design
- 01.2 Challenge – Numerical modelling & simulation
- 01.3 Challenge – Increased customer expectations for comfort
- 01.4 Challenge – Electrification & Noise Reduction
- 01.5 Challenge – Timely product launch
- 01.6 Challenge – Productivity increase
- 01.7 Challenge – Use of lightweight and new materials
- 01.8 Challenge – Innovation
- 01.9 Challenge – Supplier integration & global development
- 02 Solutions overview
- 04 Services
- 05 Insights overview
- 07 Company
- A Bug report page
- About us
- Academy
- Benchmark Study
- Brochures VIBES
- Cases
- Cases & Implementation
- Custom solution services
- Feedback Academy
- Frequently Asked Questions – VIBES.experience
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- Thank you
- Use case
- VIBES office opening party
- VIBES.experience
- VIBES.experience – Presenter form
- VIBES.experience – Terms and Conditions
- VIBES.experience 2023
- VIBES.experience 2023 – Registration
- VIBES.experience 2023- Presenters form
- VIBES.technology @Aachen Acoustics Colloquium
- VIBES.technology @SIAT 2026
- Webinar component TPA Source Characterization
- Webinar Einführung zu TPA Blocked Forces
- Webinar introduction to TPA Blocked Forces
Insights
Insight
- Webinar – The Release of DIRAC 2026 R1
- A Decade of Good VIBES: From a Leap Day Dream to an International Standard in NVH
- Webinar – The Release of COUPLE 2026 R1
- Webinar – The Release of SOURCE 2025 R1
- The Making of – SOURCE 2025 R1
- Webinar – Hybrid Modular Engineering of Noise and Vibration
- VIBES.experience 2025 – Introducing Hybrid Modular Engineering
- A Software Engineer joins the team! Meet Daniel Rosa
- Meet Seoyoung Youn, our new Sales and Business Development consultant!
- Rafael Dias joins VIBES as Solution Engineer!
- Meet our new Software Engineer Marina Giannaraki
- Meet Ekin Erdem Evliya, our new Senior Software Developer
- Meet our new Marketing & Communications Specialist: Moniek Lukkes!
- X-DoF Improves Your Blocked Forces: Paper Published
- COUPLE Update Webinar – Q4-2024
- Ed Hoogreef joins VIBES as Head of Sales & Business Development!
- Willem Schüttler is our new Project Engineer!
- Meet Laura Tuneu Bellera, our new UX/UI Designer!
- VIBES.technology Partners with Leading NVH Consultant
- Meet Khoi Doan, our new Marketer!
- New VIBES office opening party & team event
- COUPLE v2.1 webinar – 12 June
- DIRAC v4.2 webinar – 3 April
- Experimental Modal Analysis meets DIRAC
- COUPLE v2.0 webinar – 22 November
- Patent pending! X-DoF improves your Blocked Forces
- VIBES.experience 2023
- VIBES at Atelier Acoustique 2023
- VIBES & BMW Group
- VIBES at IMAC Conference 2023
- VIBES 2022 – 2023 | Looking back and ahead
- The VIBES Customer Success Team
- COUPLE webinar 26 October
- The VIBES.experience 2022
- MÜLLER-BBM AG completes 40% stake acquisition of VIBES.technology
- A Success Story: VIBES & Hyundai Motor Company
- People, culture, activities; #goodvibes!
- VIBES & BMW: Dynamic Substructuring and component TPA applied to a fully electric BMW i4
- Developing software and good VIBES
- VIBES & Magna Steyr: Optimization of e-compressor noise
- Developing COUPLE: The first tests
- COUPLE: Born @ IMAC
- How it is like to move abroad for a new job: the stories of Manuel and Eleonora
- VIBES 2021 – 2022 | Looking back and ahead
- A new Software Engineer in our team: meet Jelle Zult
- Software updates DIRAC and SOURCE
- VIBES & BMW Group: Dynamic Substructuring
- Work hard play hard
- Bigger & Better: New Munich Office
- Developing COUPLE: Bridging test & simulation
- Beach, Bitterballen & Blocked Forces
- Meet Mathias Kohrmann, our new Project Engineer in Munich
- VIBES & Hyundai Motor Company
- Hurray! VIBES’ lustrum celebration week!
- All-new release of DIRAC V3!
- Meet our new Project Engineer: Daniel Pfuhler
- VIBES & TU Munich / BMW Group
- 5 years of good VIBES!
- VIBES & Lightyear
- Frequency Based Substructuring Applied to Electric Drivetrains
- VIBES 2020 – 2021 | Looking back and ahead
- Meet our new Business Developer: Eleonora Cesari
- An intuitive workflow for an accurate characterization of active sources
- Meet our new Research Engineer: Steven Klaassen
- How to use DIRAC: a practical video
- The journey of SOURCE
- A video demo: SOURCE in 2,5 minutes
- SOURCE & how it is used by engineers
- Eurostars voted innovation at VIBES.technology as one of the best in Europe
- The release of SOURCE
- ISMA presentation 2020
- Lightyears of innovation
- Electric Compressor Source Characterization
- Characterisation of an Electromagnetic Roll Control with Blocked Forces
- Meet our new Office Manager: Annika Kwint
- The Why of SOURCE
- NVH trends & practical tips in Corona times
- Experimental twelve degree of freedom rubber isolator models for use in substructuring assemblies
- E-compressor: Blocked Force Source Characterization
- Sound & vibration engineering process for the Lightyear One
- IMAC Conference 2020
- Seminars on VIBES’ methodology in Japan
- Maximize your NVH measurement quality (using DIRAC)
- VIBES & ZF Friedrichshafen
- Frequency Based Substructuring of an E-Golf
- Meet our newest developer: Sander Pronk
- VIBES & Magna Steyr
- Introducing the VIBES Munich Team
- VIBES & Volvo
- VIBES & Doosan Bobcat
- VIBES office in Munich
- All-new release of VIBES Toolbox for MATLAB V3!
- Case study steering gear – DIRAC
- Case study E-compressor – DIRAC
- Prediction in-vehicle E-Power Steering sound & vibration performance
- Prediction of NVH performance by combining test data and FE models
- New technology and software for blocked forces
- Technical Seminar
- Automotive NVH trends
- Success story
- New Tech Program – Special offer
- A new alliance for innovation
- DIRAC launch
- IMAC Conference 2019
- IMAC and upcoming launch
- VIBES 2018 – 2019 | Looking back and ahead
- VIBES applies new modeling and substructuring technologies to a Volvo electric drive
- Vibrations are all around us!
- Behind the scenes of Transfer path analysis
- Marketeer gezocht om VIBES op de kaart te zetten | Functie vervuld
- VIBES zoekt dynamica engineer voor projecten bij grote autofabrikanten
- VIBES.Technology goes French
- PRESS RELEASE | VIBES receives growth capital from UNIIQ
- All-new release of VIBES Toolbox for MATLAB
- Conference papers presented at IMAC XXXV
- M. Wernsen wins DeMichelle scholarship award
Cases
Pages
- 01 Challenges overview
- 01.1 Challenge – Cost reduction
- 01.10 Challenge – Modular & platform-based vehicles
- 01.11 Challenge – Customization & product variants
- 01.12 Challenge – Sustainability & recycling
- 01.13 Challenge – Infotainment & smart cabin systems
- 01.14 Challenge – Active noise control & sound design
- 01.2 Challenge – Numerical modelling & simulation
- 01.3 Challenge – Increased customer expectations for comfort
- 01.4 Challenge – Electrification & Noise Reduction
- 01.5 Challenge – Timely product launch
- 01.6 Challenge – Productivity increase
- 01.7 Challenge – Use of lightweight and new materials
- 01.8 Challenge – Innovation
- 01.9 Challenge – Supplier integration & global development
- 02 Solutions overview
- 04 Services
- 05 Insights overview
- 07 Company
- A Bug report page
- About us
- Academy
- Benchmark Study
- Brochures VIBES
- Cases
- Cases & Implementation
- Custom solution services
- Feedback Academy
- Frequently Asked Questions – VIBES.experience
- Home
- Methodology
- News
- Newsletter
- Orientational Tech Program
- Privacy Policy
- Products
- Request a free trial
- Sitemap
- Source Characterization Whitepaper VIBES
- Thank you
- Use case
- VIBES office opening party
- VIBES.experience
- VIBES.experience – Presenter form
- VIBES.experience – Terms and Conditions
- VIBES.experience 2023
- VIBES.experience 2023 – Registration
- VIBES.experience 2023- Presenters form
- VIBES.technology @Aachen Acoustics Colloquium
- VIBES.technology @SIAT 2026
- Webinar component TPA Source Characterization
- Webinar Einführung zu TPA Blocked Forces
- Webinar introduction to TPA Blocked Forces
Insight
- Webinar – The Release of DIRAC 2026 R1
- A Decade of Good VIBES: From a Leap Day Dream to an International Standard in NVH
- Webinar – The Release of COUPLE 2026 R1
- Webinar – The Release of SOURCE 2025 R1
- The Making of – SOURCE 2025 R1
- Webinar – Hybrid Modular Engineering of Noise and Vibration
- VIBES.experience 2025 – Introducing Hybrid Modular Engineering
- A Software Engineer joins the team! Meet Daniel Rosa
- Meet Seoyoung Youn, our new Sales and Business Development consultant!
- Rafael Dias joins VIBES as Solution Engineer!
- Meet our new Software Engineer Marina Giannaraki
- Meet Ekin Erdem Evliya, our new Senior Software Developer
- Meet our new Marketing & Communications Specialist: Moniek Lukkes!
- X-DoF Improves Your Blocked Forces: Paper Published
- COUPLE Update Webinar – Q4-2024
- Ed Hoogreef joins VIBES as Head of Sales & Business Development!
- Willem Schüttler is our new Project Engineer!
- Meet Laura Tuneu Bellera, our new UX/UI Designer!
- VIBES.technology Partners with Leading NVH Consultant
- Meet Khoi Doan, our new Marketer!
- New VIBES office opening party & team event
- COUPLE v2.1 webinar – 12 June
- DIRAC v4.2 webinar – 3 April
- Experimental Modal Analysis meets DIRAC
- COUPLE v2.0 webinar – 22 November
- Patent pending! X-DoF improves your Blocked Forces
- VIBES.experience 2023
- VIBES at Atelier Acoustique 2023
- VIBES & BMW Group
- VIBES at IMAC Conference 2023
- VIBES 2022 – 2023 | Looking back and ahead
- The VIBES Customer Success Team
- COUPLE webinar 26 October
- The VIBES.experience 2022
- MÜLLER-BBM AG completes 40% stake acquisition of VIBES.technology
- A Success Story: VIBES & Hyundai Motor Company
- People, culture, activities; #goodvibes!
- VIBES & BMW: Dynamic Substructuring and component TPA applied to a fully electric BMW i4
- Developing software and good VIBES
- VIBES & Magna Steyr: Optimization of e-compressor noise
- Developing COUPLE: The first tests
- COUPLE: Born @ IMAC
- How it is like to move abroad for a new job: the stories of Manuel and Eleonora
- VIBES 2021 – 2022 | Looking back and ahead
- A new Software Engineer in our team: meet Jelle Zult
- Software updates DIRAC and SOURCE
- VIBES & BMW Group: Dynamic Substructuring
- Work hard play hard
- Bigger & Better: New Munich Office
- Developing COUPLE: Bridging test & simulation
- Beach, Bitterballen & Blocked Forces
- Meet Mathias Kohrmann, our new Project Engineer in Munich
- VIBES & Hyundai Motor Company
- Hurray! VIBES’ lustrum celebration week!
- All-new release of DIRAC V3!
- Meet our new Project Engineer: Daniel Pfuhler
- VIBES & TU Munich / BMW Group
- 5 years of good VIBES!
- VIBES & Lightyear
- Frequency Based Substructuring Applied to Electric Drivetrains
- VIBES 2020 – 2021 | Looking back and ahead
- Meet our new Business Developer: Eleonora Cesari
- An intuitive workflow for an accurate characterization of active sources
- Meet our new Research Engineer: Steven Klaassen
- How to use DIRAC: a practical video
- The journey of SOURCE
- A video demo: SOURCE in 2,5 minutes
- SOURCE & how it is used by engineers
- Eurostars voted innovation at VIBES.technology as one of the best in Europe
- The release of SOURCE
- ISMA presentation 2020
- Lightyears of innovation
- Electric Compressor Source Characterization
- Characterisation of an Electromagnetic Roll Control with Blocked Forces
- Meet our new Office Manager: Annika Kwint
- The Why of SOURCE
- NVH trends & practical tips in Corona times
- Experimental twelve degree of freedom rubber isolator models for use in substructuring assemblies
- E-compressor: Blocked Force Source Characterization
- Sound & vibration engineering process for the Lightyear One
- IMAC Conference 2020
- Seminars on VIBES’ methodology in Japan
- Maximize your NVH measurement quality (using DIRAC)
- VIBES & ZF Friedrichshafen
- Frequency Based Substructuring of an E-Golf
- Meet our newest developer: Sander Pronk
- VIBES & Magna Steyr
- Introducing the VIBES Munich Team
- VIBES & Volvo
- VIBES & Doosan Bobcat
- VIBES office in Munich
- All-new release of VIBES Toolbox for MATLAB V3!
- Case study steering gear – DIRAC
- Case study E-compressor – DIRAC
- Prediction in-vehicle E-Power Steering sound & vibration performance
- Prediction of NVH performance by combining test data and FE models
- New technology and software for blocked forces
- Technical Seminar
- Automotive NVH trends
- Success story
- New Tech Program – Special offer
- A new alliance for innovation
- DIRAC launch
- IMAC Conference 2019
- IMAC and upcoming launch
- VIBES 2018 – 2019 | Looking back and ahead
- VIBES applies new modeling and substructuring technologies to a Volvo electric drive
- Vibrations are all around us!
- Behind the scenes of Transfer path analysis
- Marketeer gezocht om VIBES op de kaart te zetten | Functie vervuld
- VIBES zoekt dynamica engineer voor projecten bij grote autofabrikanten
- VIBES.Technology goes French
- PRESS RELEASE | VIBES receives growth capital from UNIIQ
- All-new release of VIBES Toolbox for MATLAB
- Conference papers presented at IMAC XXXV
- M. Wernsen wins DeMichelle scholarship award
Research
- Component based OTPA: An alternative to component TPA without impact measurements
- Advanced complex power TPA studies for road noise NVH performance on a rear axle
- Component based OTPA: An alternative to component TPA without impact measurements
- Comparison of Methods Between an Acceleration-Based In-Situ and a New Hybrid In-Situ Blocked Force Determination
- Road Noise NVH: Embedding Suspension Test Benches in NVH Design using Virtual Points and the TPA Framework
- Airborne Transfer Path Analysis for an e-compressor
- Benchmark Study: The benefit of including rotational degrees of freedom in your source description
- PHD Thesis on Modular Sound and Vibration Engineering by Substructuring by Michael Häuβler
- Experimental twelve degree of freedom rubber isolator models for use in substructuring assemblies
- E-compressor airborne NVH Airborne sound predictions in vehicles with the help of component-based Transfer Path Analysis
- A Comparison of Two Source Characterisation Techniques Proposed for Standardisation
- A benchmark structure for validation of Experimental Substructuring, Transfer Path Analysis and Source Characterisation techniques
- A robust Transfer Path Analysis method for steering gear vibrations on a test bench
- An indicator sensor criterion for in-situ characterisation of source vibrations
- PHD Thesis on Experimental Dynamic Substructuring by Maarten van der Seijs
- General framework for Transfer Path Analysis: History, theory and classification of techniques
- A Comparison of Two Component TPA Approaches for Steering Gear Noise Prediction
- Wikipedia page on Dynamic Substructuring
- Validation of Current State Frequency Based Substructuring Technology for the Characterisation of Steering Gear–Vehicle Interaction
- An improved methodology for the virtual point transformation of measured frequency response functions in dynamic substructuring
- PHD thesis on Dynamic response characterization of complex systems through operational identification and dynamic substructuring by Dennis de Klerk
- General Framework for Dynamic Substructuring: History, Review, and Classification of Techniques
Testimonial
Academy
- Product Guides are moving to KnowledgeHub!
- Hybrid Modular Engineering of Noise and Vibration: Improving Vehicle Development in the Age of Electrification
- 8.1 Module overview
- 8.2 Performing Model Validation
- 3.9 Reference model
- COUPLE Trainings
- DIRAC Trainings
- Software Releases
- 3.5 3D Viewer
- 3.4 Data Viewer
- Exporting data from 3rd party software
- Variation studies in COUPLE
- 1.4 Preferences and units
- 3.8 Wireframes
- 5 Checking the model with artificial excitations
- 8.6 Chapter management
- 4 Checking signal and noise
- 1 Quality checks for source characterization
- Creating virtual acoustic prototypes
- 2.1 SOURCE v1.9
- Experimental modal analysis in DIRAC – Workflow
- Measuring with multiple hammers
- 2.1 DIRAC v4.1
- 4.6 Inspector
- 3.6 Organizing models into libraries
- 3.2 Importing data
- Sensitivity analysis with Stiffness Injection
- X-DoF
- 2 Checking operational consistency
- 3 Checking operational deflection shapes
- 4 Checking the hammer merge
- Shaker testing
- 8 Checking VP plausibility (passivity and reciprocity)
- 5 Checking overloads
- Experimental modal analysis – Algorithm
- 6-DoF Mount stiffness characterization
- 5.1 Visualizing data and results
- 4.4 Decoupling components
- 4.3 Creating assemblies with empty parts
- 4.2 Assemblies and variation studies
- 3.1 Model Library
- 3 Checking test setups with ODS
- 7 Checking VP consistency
- 1 Quality checks for test-based models
- 6 Checking coherence
- 2.2 SOURCE v1.8
- 9.4 Fluent TPA
- 2.2 DIRAC v4.0
- 7.3 Visualizing results
- 7.2 Performing Modal Analysis
- 7.1 Module overview
- 2 Checking VP conditioning
- 2.3 SOURCE v1.7
- Insights in component TPA – Source Characterization
- Roving sensor testing
- 2.2 Model packages
- Tracking channels
- Working with the Matrix Viewer
- Importing data
- Plotting tips and tricks
- Connecting to an MK2 using the live hub
- Connecting to an MK2 directly
- During the measurement – tips and tricks
- Automatic Measurement Selection
- Working with the sensor database
- Order analyses
- Customizing graph layouts
- 4.5 Project overview
- 6.2 Exporting plots
- 3.3 Channels and interfaces
- 6.1 Exporting data
- 4.1 Adding models and links
- 2.1 Managing libraries
- 1.3 Supported Data Formats
- 1.2 Nomenclature
- 1.1 About COUPLE
- 3.1 Accessing the VIBES License Manager
- 5.1 VIBES Support
- 4.1 Getting a Trial Version
- 3.3 Fixed Licenses
- 3.2 Floating Licenses
- 2.2 Installing Software
- 2.1 Downloading Software
- 1.3 Downloading files
- 1.2 Uploading files
- 1.1 Registering to the VIBES Portal
- 2.3 DIRAC v3.4
- 5.2 Sequences
- 10.3 Exporting audio files
- 10.2 Exporting plots
- 2.4 PAK Cloud
- 2.4 SOURCE v1.6
- 1.1 Workflow
- 2.1 SOURCE v2.0
- 2.1 Modules overview
- 2.2 Preferences
- 3.1 Importing Data
- 3.2 Loading Data & Repositories
- 3.3 Grouping Data & Test Assemblies
- 4.1 Master channels
- 4.2 Mapping channels
- 4.3 Virtual Points
- 5.1 Segments
- 6.1 Operational Deflection Shapes (ODS)
- 7.1 Auralizing a dataset
- 8.1 Plot types
- 8.2 Creating plots
- 8.3 Managing data in plots
- 8.4 Plot settings
- 8.5 Legends
- 9.1 Creating an analysis
- 9.2 Analysis settings
- 9.3 Results
- Calculating in-situ Blocked Forces
- Calculating direct Blocked Forces
- Calculating TPA syntheses
- 10.1 Exporting data
- 1.2 Release notes
- 6.3 Measurement Matrix
- Insights in Blocked Force TPA and Dynamic Substructuring
- 6 Combining test-based models with FE models
- 5 Rubber bushing identification using DS
- 4 Transmission Simulators & decoupling
- 3 Substructuring methods
- 2 Basics of Substructuring Assembly
- 6 Evaluating Blocked Force quality
- 1 Modeling Domains
- 2 Classical TPA
- 5 Methods to determine interface forces
- 3 Blocked Forces vs Interface Forces
- 2 Mathematics behind Blocked Forces
- 4 Transmissibility-based TPA
- 3 Component-based TPA
- 4 Methods to determine Blocked Forces
- 5 Interfaces: 3-DoF versus 6-DoF
- 4 Measuring Virtual Points in practice
- 3 Modeling Domains
- 2 What is NVH?
- 3 Evaluating the quality of your model
- 2 Mathematics behind Virtual Points
- 1 The basics
- 1 General framework for TPA
- 6 Virtual Point modeling in DIRAC
- 1 Why use Virtual Points?
- 1 Intro to the VIBES Methodology
- 3.3 Component Mode Synthesis of a building
- 3.2 Dynamic Substructuring of two substructures
- 2.5 Using the 3D environment
- 2.4 Plotting of spectral data
- 2.3 Plotting of time data
- 2.2 Dataset classes
- Transfer Path Analysis
- Blocked Forces
- Virtual Point
- Dynamic Substructuring
- 1.3 Working with VIBES objects
- 1.2 Basic commands
- 3.1 Signal processing: vehicle measurement
- 2.1 Nodes, DoFs and channels
- 1.1 Workflow
- 9.1 Export options
- 6.6 Power user tips
- 6.5 Operational Deflection Shapes
- 6.4 Validate
- 6.2 Matrix selections, VPT and post-processing
- 6.1 Module overview
- 5.1 Data module and importing files
- 4.6 Troubleshooting: scope card
- 4.5 Measurement control: hardware card
- 4.4 Reviewing data: graphing card
- 4.3 Measurement execution: impact locations and shaker control card
- 4.2 DAQ
- 4.1 Module overview
- 3.7 Photo viewer
- 3.6 Virtual Point Transformation
- 3.5 Virtual Points
- 3.4 Sensors, shakers and impacts
- 3.3 Geometries
- 3.2 Prepare widgets
- 3.1 Module overview
- 2.3 Keyboard commands
- 2.2 General tips & tricks
- 2.1 Modules & campaigns
- 1.2 Demo project
- 1.1 Overview
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- 1 The VIBES Portal
- 2 Downloading & Installing Software
- 3 Licensing
- 4 Software Trials
- 5 Support
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- Product Guide COUPLE
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Libraries
- 3 Preparing and organizing models
- 4 Designing topologies
- Examples
- 5 Analysis
- 6 Exporting
- Product Guide DIRAC
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Quick References
- 3 Prepare
- Examples
- 4 Measure
- Examples
- 5 Data Import
- Examples
- 6 Analyze
- Examples
- 7 Experimental Modal Analysis
- 8 Validate
- 9 Export
- Examples
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- VIBES Solutions
- Product Guide SOURCE
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Modules & Preferences
- 3 Importing and Organizing Data
- 4 Channels and Virtual Points
- 5 Pre-processing
- 6 3D-Animation
- 7 Auralization
- 8 Plotting
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- 1 Getting Started
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- 3 Examples and Tutorials
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- Intro to our Methodology
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