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Ringing conditions, durability life and sound quality of church bells

  • Bells are musical instruments exposed to severe loading and stress conditions during ringing. The impact of the clapper leads to local wear with material abrasion and high stresses with possible fatigue cracks. Such damages may only be identified based on tone shifts and increased damping, when they have already propagated to large dimensions. Consequently repair such as welding or even re-casting become necessary. Here procedures for the fatigue life evaluation of bells are presented based on investigations of at least more than 300 culturally and historically important bells in Europe. From those investigations the most important conclusion is, that each bell is unique in its structure and its setup for ringing and has to be evaluated individually. Thus recent research aimed on a very early crack detection. Then changes of the sound are still very small, so that the musical quality of the bell may not be impaired. Then still measures can be taken to stop the crack propagation at this early stage without severe repair and the bellBells are musical instruments exposed to severe loading and stress conditions during ringing. The impact of the clapper leads to local wear with material abrasion and high stresses with possible fatigue cracks. Such damages may only be identified based on tone shifts and increased damping, when they have already propagated to large dimensions. Consequently repair such as welding or even re-casting become necessary. Here procedures for the fatigue life evaluation of bells are presented based on investigations of at least more than 300 culturally and historically important bells in Europe. From those investigations the most important conclusion is, that each bell is unique in its structure and its setup for ringing and has to be evaluated individually. Thus recent research aimed on a very early crack detection. Then changes of the sound are still very small, so that the musical quality of the bell may not be impaired. Then still measures can be taken to stop the crack propagation at this early stage without severe repair and the bell continues to ring. Recent research concentrates on the design of the sound of the bell based on the parameters by which the bell setup is defined and the stress conditions are determined. KEYWORDS BELL, RINGING, SOUND, FATIGUE CRACK, WEAR, LOADING, SIMULATION, MEASUREMENT, MONITORINGshow moreshow less

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Author:Andreas RuppGND, Denis Spieß, Michael PlitznerORCiDGND
Identifier:978-3-9820591-0-5 OPAC HS OPAC extern
Parent Title (English):VAL4 - Fourth International Conference on Material and Component Performance under Variable Amplitude Loading
Publisher:Deutscher Verband für Materialforschung und -prüfung e.V.
Place of publication:Berlin
Editor:Matthias Decker, Rüdiger Heim, Cetin M. Sonsino
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Conference:Fourth International Conference on Material and Component Performance under Variable Amplitude Loading, 30.03. - 01.04.2020,Online-Konferenz, Darmstadt, Germany
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Tag:Glocke; Materialprüfung
Volume:2020
Number of pages:10 Seiten
First Page:707
Last Page:716
Institutes:ECC-ProBell - Europäisches Kompetenzzentrum für Glocken
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften
Research focus:FSP2: Mobilität
FSP3: Produktion
Publication Lists:Rupp, Andreas
Plitzner, Michael
Spiess, Denis
Publication reviewed:begutachtet
Release Date:2020/12/14
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