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Darina König

• The Vehicle Gas Spring Audio Set (VGSAD) was created as part of the bachelor's thesis "Acoustic Fault Detection in Plain Bearings"(Darina König, 2026). The dataset contains audio recordings of automotive gas springs used in tailgates and engine hoods. The recordings were acquired to investigate the acoustic and psychoacoustic characteristics of different gas spring movements and to provide a dataset for sound quality analysis and signal processing. Audio recordings were captured using a Sound Devices MixPre-3 recorder and a Sanken CO-100K microphone. All recordings are provided as mono WAV files with a sampling rate of 192 kHz and 32-bit floating-point resolution. The ZIP archive contains recordings from 54 vehicles, each stored in a separate folder identified by an anonymous ID. Most vehicle folders contain eight audio recordings, covering all combinations of left/right side, opening/closing movement, and slow/fast operation. A small number of vehicles contain only four recordings, as they were equipped with a gas spring onThe Vehicle Gas Spring Audio Set (VGSAD) was created as part of the bachelor's thesis "Acoustic Fault Detection in Plain Bearings"(Darina König, 2026). The dataset contains audio recordings of automotive gas springs used in tailgates and engine hoods. The recordings were acquired to investigate the acoustic and psychoacoustic characteristics of different gas spring movements and to provide a dataset for sound quality analysis and signal processing. Audio recordings were captured using a Sound Devices MixPre-3 recorder and a Sanken CO-100K microphone. All recordings are provided as mono WAV files with a sampling rate of 192 kHz and 32-bit floating-point resolution. The ZIP archive contains recordings from 54 vehicles, each stored in a separate folder identified by an anonymous ID. Most vehicle folders contain eight audio recordings, covering all combinations of left/right side, opening/closing movement, and slow/fast operation. A small number of vehicles contain only four recordings, as they were equipped with a gas spring on only one side. The archive is organized as follows: Documentation, including an anonymized vehicle list with assigned IDs. Raw audio recordings with acoustic clap markers used to identify the relevant measurement interval. Processed audio recordings with the clap markers removed. Each vehicle folder is identified by its anonymous ID. Audio files follow the naming convention: `[side]-[movement]-[speed].wav` side: left or right, movement: opening or closing, speed: slow or fast. The recordings were made in two automotive workshop halls under generally quiet environmental conditions. Due to the measurement environment, some room reverberation is present in the recordings.…