“…In the open literature (De Klerk & Rixen, 2010;De Klerk & Ossipov, 2010;Gajdatsy et al, 2009;Janssens et al, 2011;Lennström et al, 2014;Magrans, 1981;Magrans, 1993;Padilha & De Frana Arruda, 2006), various approaches have been reported in order to define the passive transfer paths that vibrations or acoustic signals use to propagate through the vehicle. One of these methods, the Transfer Path Analysis (TPA), was first developed in the early '80s and was seen as a tool to improve the NVH performance of several systems.…”