Abstract
A recently initiated project to measure the elastic and damping material properties, normal mode frequency and shape vibrational properties, and the angular distribution and efficiency of radiation from assembled violins is described. Combining accurate geometries and densities, experimental modal analysis with a scanning laser vibrometer, measurements of bridge-corpus transfer mobilities, and far-field radiation over a sphere, one potential application is to extract the relevant material and vibrational properties for all substructures. Another goal is to generate a finite-element model ‘‘particularized’’ to each violin to calculate normal mode radiation from the violin and simulate its sound. Other aspects and applications of the model will also be briefly discussed. [Research supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-9802656.]
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