Modal analysis

David Skolnik skolnik@attglobal.net
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:48:05 -0500


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Richard-
Did you try accessing the ISMA document? When I go to their website I find 
links going back only to 1996. Also couldn't find quoted bulletin at 
Petrof.  Looks interesting. Thanks.

David Skolnik
New York, NY
skolnik@attglobal.net


At 09:29 PM 01/24/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Hi folks.
>
>This subject has been up from time to time with varying opinions about its 
>worth, and questions about whether or not factories use it, and why.  I 
>like to try and ask people directly if I can, and I got this back from one 
>of the fellows at the research department at Petrof. Thought you might 
>like to hear what he had to say.
>
>
>"Dear Richard
>We are using EMA for piano design. Most of all we are observing modal shapes
>of soundboard with / without bridge in free conditions. We have also
>laboratory brass frame for fixed piano soundboard conditions (can be seen in
>our web bulletin No 01/2000). Ocassionally we make also EMA of grand outer
>rim. It can be helpfull for construction changes results observing . For
>instance comparing of modal shape amplitude between soundboard and rim can
>say something about acoustic efficiency of new prototype.
>We made some works on computer modelling of piano soundboard by FEM and
>comparing Fem model modeshape results with real soundboards from EMA. Some
>results of my colleague work You can see at proceedings of ISMA 1995 France,
>Dourdan -
>Alois Raffaj: Vibrations of piano soundboards, pg 373."
>
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>RPT, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway
><mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no>mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
>http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
>

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