Virtual prototyping : a potential tool for wooden cultural heritage studies

Romain Viala (1) , Vincent Placet (1) , Scott Cogan (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

In this paper, numerical methods developed in the industrial domain are discussed, in order to evaluate their utility towards instrument making and conservation. The aim of the overall work is to provide virtual prototyping tools as a decision support for instrument makers and curators, such as material parameters sensitivity analyses coupled with retro‐engineering, simulations of stress induced by hygroscopic changes and mounting, and numerical support to instruments testing. The violin is the main subject of this work, and a numerical model of violin based on computer aided design has been developed to illustrate these methods. Experimental measurements are also presented to explore test‐analysis correlation.

Domaines: Mécanique [physics]

Romain Viala, Vincent Placet, Scott Cogan. Virtual prototyping : a potential tool for wooden cultural heritage studies. Symposium : Analysis and characterization of wooden cultural heritage by scientific engineering methods, Apr 2016, Saale, Germany. ⟨hal-03107836⟩