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Acoustic comfort inside the vehicle is required whenever a wiper system is in function: front wiper motor noise is of great influence on the global comfort and its perception inside the car is 100% due to transmission of vibrations through wiper system fixation points on the vehicle. As any active source, both car manufacturer and system supplier need to be involved, at early stages of project development, in order to master the vibroacoustic integration of the system into the vehicle. This paper presents an experimental methodology dedicated to the front wiper system that offers the possibility to estimate the acoustic comfort inside the vehicle during project deployment phase, when modifications can still be proposed. Based on the XP-R-19701 standard, the procedure allows to measure, on a bench, the dynamic forces transmitted via the fixation points and details how to transpose them to the vehicle, taking into account the different specificities of the wiper system.

The control of sound fields radiated by vibrating structures in a passenger compartment, (especially structures connected to different organs like the engine powertrain, the fan motor unit, seats, the steering column, electrical motors more and more, etc.) is among the functions of the automotive manufacturers. The absence of physical prototypes in the development phase systems led OEMs1 to use tests results obtained on benches following technical specifications from manufacturers. The transition "bench to vehicle" for vibro- acoustic behaviour sets many challenges that this standard intends to clear up. This standard specifies the experimental method to transpose the dynamic forces generated by the global movements of an active component between the vehicle and a test bench. The efforts are first measured on test benches and then transposed from test bench towards the vehicle. The standard is now a French standard (XP R 19-701) and is submitted to ISO process [1].

The reduction of aerodynamic noise sources is today an important topic in automotive industry. In order to localize the different sources on the arm and blade, a 48 microphones acoustic antenna coupled with a software based on the beam-forming imaging method has been used. Obtained results are validated inside the car on track. Aerodynamic numerical simulations are compared to aerodynamic measurements. The turbulent kinetic energy distribution obtained from the simulations is then compared with measured sound sources localization maps: the results are presented and commented for two wiper configurations.