Vibrational patterns and frequency responses of the free plates and box of a violin obtained by finite element analysis
J. Bretos, Carlos Santamaría, Jesús Alonso Moral · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1999
By means of the finite-element method, a study of the vibrational behavior of the violin has been developed in two parts. In the first part, the analysis concerns the free violin plates and their tuning process, which has been accurately described by this numerical tool. In the second part, the whole violin box—except for the neck—has been modeled and its first ten eigenmodes have been calculated. In both parts, the calculated vibrational patterns and frequency responses have been compared with experimental measurements of other researchers.