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The artistic sound of a cymbal is produced by employing a special copper alloy as well as incorporating complicated and heterogeneous residual stress/strain distributions. In order to establish a modern engineering process that achieves high-quality control for the cymbals, it is necessary to investigate the distribution of the residual stresses/strains in the cymbal and their quantitative relation with the frequency characteristics of the sound generated from the cymbal. In the present study, we have successfully used synchrotron radiation to measure the distribution of residual strain in two kinds of cymbals—after spinforming as well as after hammering. The microstructure and the mechanical properties of the cymbals were measured as well their acoustic response. Based on our experimental data, the inhomogeneous residual stress/strain distributions in the cymbals were deduced in detail and their influence on the frequency characteristics of the sound produced by the cymbals was identified.
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The authors express their hearty thanks for Dr. Kentaro Kajiwara of JASRI for his valuable scientific suggestion and experimental support. The diffraction experiments were performed at BL28B2 of SPring-8 as the research subject of industrial application (Proposal No. 2013A1346).
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Osamura, K., Kuratani, F., Koide, T. et al. The Correlation Between the Percussive Sound and the Residual Stress/Strain Distributions in a Cymbal. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 25, 5323–5329 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-016-2408-6
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