Vibrational patterns and frequency responses of the free plates and box of a violin obtained by finite element analysis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1942-1950

  Bretos, J ^a   Santamaria C ^a   Moral, J Alonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033046359     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426729     Document Type: Article

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