NetdB dBFA Software Suite

Easy Tools for NVH Analysis

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OVERVIEW

Easy tool for NVH analysis

 

dBFA Suite: Your "passe-partout" for the NVH world!
A "real" companion for any 01dB-Metravib supported hardware platforms, performing real time and off-line analysis of noise and vibration signals.Taking advantage of the long experience acquired by 01dB-Metravib (dBFA 1.0 was released in 1990!), dBFA Software suite, including Recording and Real-Time Analysis as well as numerous off-line standard and advanced post-processing functions, provides the ideal solution to Industrial Engineering offices, R&D departments, technical centers and laboratories..

 

Multi-platform real time recording and analysis for daily operations?
That's what dBFA Software Suite is offering you and even more!

Significant improvement of your NVH Measurements and Analysis:
Parallel Real time processing and recording
Applications oriented processing tools
Automated functions for time and cost saving
Data Import/Export capabilities

 

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Main functions

Multi-platform data acquisition up to 2048 channels

Solo; SymphonieOrchestra; NetdB-DAQ; NI USB-9233, PXI & PCI; VXI E1432A, ...
 Networking of different analyzer configurations with time conditions in order to reduce your test time
Real-time monitoring of the recorded Noise & Vibration signals
Replay mode for the measured data stored with all real time processing

Multi-platform

Simultaneous real-time multi-analysis: Averaged and multi-spectra with FFT and 1/1 down to 1/48 octave, cross-spectra and frequency response functions, order analysis, ...
Transient & Impact Testing analysis: customizable, with an enhanced path management for modal analysis
Numerous application oriented post-processing functions with analysis scripts

A complete set of tools for data management and reporting

Transducers Database management: Sensors, calibrators, calibration history,...
Data Import: UFF58, Wave, nCODE, Matlab, ASAM/ODS, SONY, TEAC (Digital format)
Data Export: ASCII, Wave, MeScope, Matlab, mp3, Lexade, SDF...
Powerful bi-directional link to Matlab and compatibility with Office software
Automatic reporting capabilities from real-time and post-processing modules

Application fields

Automotive, Aeronautic, Space, Railway, Mechanical, Materials, Household appliances, Electroacoustics, Telecommunications, ...

Several packages and modules

dBFA Recorder-PostProcessing : the basic package to record time domain signal, monitoring FFT and 1/3 octave and to post-process these data. It includes the Recorder and standard Post-Processing modules. dBFA Recorder-Analyzer-PostProcessing : the advanced package included the dBFA Recorder-PostProcessing features with more simultaneous real time processing (FFT, FRF, 1/nth octave, tacho process, overall levels, real time statistics, calculations vs time and rpm, ...)., more display capabilities. It includes the Recorder, Analyzer and standard Post-Processing modules

To one of these two packages, you can add some options :

Real Time options

Sound Intensity Option: sound power / intensity process according to ISO9614 standards.
Transcient/Impact: OptionFRF triggered with path definition for transient and impact testing applications. Coordinates management, user defined windowing, Me'scope format export... (requires Recorder-Analyzer-PostProcessing package).
Order tracking Option: Order Analysis and Order Tracking in Real Time and post-processing for Rotating machine applications. (requires Recorder-Analyzer-PostProcessing package).
Reporting Option: Useful to enhance productivity. It's possible to get a test report immediately at the end of your acquisition in Analyzer mode. The feature is also available in post-processing mode.
RT Automation Option. Useful to enhance productivity to perform sequential tests.

Post-Processing options

Time-Frequency Option : Wavelets, Wigner-Ville, Denoising, Convolution.
Order tracking Option. Also available in real-time.
Reporting Option. Also available in real-time.
Matlab Communicator Option. Data exchange link with MATLABŪ
Viewer Option. An easy, but powerful tool to display and share your data.
dBGene Option. Signal generation software for sound card and Symphonie. White noise, pink noise, sine, sweep sine, user-defined wave


 

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SPECIFICATIONS

Signal:

Decimation
Resampling
HP, LP, BP, Stop-band, Notch Filters
Denoising...

Overall levels:

Leq with frequency weightings
Lp with time (Fast, Slow) and frequency weightings (A, B, C)
Acceleration
Velocity
Displacement with Human vibrations weightings, ...

Statistics:

Min
Max
Peak
Peak to Peak
Average
RMS
RMS band
Standard deviation: Skew
Kurtosis.
Averaged and vs. time, ...

FFT:

Up to 12800 lines
Overlap from 0 to 75%
Hanning, Hamming, Flat-top, Rectangular...
Zoom up to 256
Multispectrum vs. time and rpm with user-defined analysis step
Averaged spectrum with linear, exponential, hold max
Auto and Cross spectrum
H1, H2, 1/H1, 1/H2, Coherence
Auto- and Cross-correlation, ...

1/N octave:

From 1/1 to 1/48 octave
Digital filtering according IEC61260 class 1
Multispectrum vs. time and rpm with user-defined analysis step
Averaged spectrum with linear, exponential, hold max, ...

Tacho:

Real time conversion to rpm profile with trigger, hysteresis, hold-off
Average
Pulses per revolution
Conversion factor; Min and Max limits, ...

Order:

Both FFT and Resampling techniques available
Order resolution down to 0.01
Rpm resolution down to 1 rpm
Fast and accurate

Time Frequency:

FFT
1/N octave
Wigner-Ville
Wavelets
Capon
Auto-regressive

Sound Intensity

Simultaneous Li and Lp measurements
Sound power according to ISO 9614 part 1 & 2
Sound Mapping

Human Vibrations

All frequency weightings according to ISO8041, ISO 2631 1&2, ISO 5349 and BS6841 for Whole Body and Hand / Arm Vibrations; VDV, eVDV (estimated), MTVV and 3 axis overall vibration values calculations (performed with individual or axis combination with different weightings)
VDV time history with variable time integration and cumulative or noncumulative Time

Structural Analysis

Real-time and off-line transient analysis on impulses, shocks, sparks, gun shots
Impact testing analysis (structural analysis)
Real-time vibration signals recording and frequency analysis (hammer testing)
Management of the acquisition geometry (excitation and response location on the tested structure)
Trigger capabilities (channel, positive or negative delay, AND/OR conditions, ...)
Customized signal windowing and filtering
Auto and cross-functions (cross-spectra, FRF's, coherence)
Export capability (UFF58, Me'Scope,...) for modal analysis processing

Rotating Machines

Tachometric acquisition and real time RPM profile calculation
Order analysis for rotating machinery, rotation run-ups and coast downs
Order extraction, cycle defaults, order filtering
Order tracking
Real-time or offline mode providing overall levels of rotation speed orders (Automatic speed profiles processing based on accurate dating of rotation speeds)
2D and 3D FFT and Orders spectrograms for sound and vibration signals

Cursors

Single
Double
Harmonics
Sidebands
Max
MultiMax

Display

2D
3D
Spectrogram and Waterfall
Graphical zoom

RT Automation

Optimize your test time
Customize your tests
Chain and/or repeat and real-time analysis with time conditions (hour, delay,...) and user between each

Automatic report

Generate your own report automatically in Word? after your real- analysis or from dBFA post-processing
Fully customizable

Product Requirements:

Recommended PC: Minimum configuration with Pentium IV (2.4 GHz) or Centrino (1.6 GHz) with 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD
XVGA display
OS Win 2000 SP4 or Win XP SP

 

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Rotating machines

 


Transient / Impact Testing

 


Sound intensity and ISO 9614

 


Post-processing mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

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