Digital modeling of 1930 Santos Hernandez classical guitar geometry

With advancement in computational power, it is possible today to create digital instruments with highly accurate geometry as well as material properties. Here, a Santos Hernandez classical guitar built in 1930, is digitally constructed in SolidWorks from plans of the actual instrument. The complete instrument consists of more than twenty parts, which were then meshed with appropriate finite elements in HyperMesh. This assembled finite element model can be analysed in any finite element solver such as Abaqus to understand the structural and acoustic wonders of such great instruments of the past, which would be very difficult to do otherwise.

Name thesis:degree_name

Bachelor

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• DeShields, Andrew(Andrew D.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nicholas Makris.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123265

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123265