Soundboards/stress

[Antares]

Bob Hohf wrote:

>All of my comments refer to unloaded soundboards.  So what does loading do 
>to 
>the stresses?  Applying downbearing does not simply put the board into 
>compression:  if it did, boards would not crack.  I thought I might go into 
>this here, but this message is already kind of long.  Maybe another time.

André Oorebeek writes:

Bob Hohf,
Thank you very much for your fine evaluation of stress and tension in soundboards.
As a subscriber to this list I would appreciate it very much  if you could tell us more about this issue, it is highly interestingand I certainly learn a lot from your experience!



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