Acoustic Properties of Selected Tropical Wood Species

Published Date
March 2010, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp 38–42

Article

First Online: 

12 February 2010

DOI: 10.1007/s10921-010-0063-7

Cite this article as: 

Sedik, Y., Hamdan, S., Jusoh, I. et al. J Nondestruct Eval (2010) 29: 38. doi:10.1007/s10921-010-0063-7

Author

Yahya Sedik, 

Sinin Hamdan, 

Ismail Jusoh, 

Mahbub Hasan

Abstract

Acoustic properties such as specific dynamic Young’s modulus (E′/γ), internal friction (Q−1) and acoustic conversion efficiency (ACE) of wood are important properties frequently examined by researchers. Vibration technique is one of the non-destructive evaluation techniques used as an alternative method for measuring the acoustic properties of wood. The objectives of this study are to determine acoustic properties of selected low density tropical wood species namely Endospermum Diadenum, Cratoxylum Arborecens, Dyera Polyphylla, Macaranga Gigantea, Commersonia Bartramia and Alstonia Pneumatophora and their suitability for making violin and guitar (acoustic instruments). The acoustic properties were determined by using free-free flexural vibration method. The results show that there are significant and good relationship between log Q−1/(E′/γ) and log E′/γ with negative gradient for each and overall wood species studied. The P-value of regression equation is less than 0.01 whereas the coefficient of determination (r2) is in the range of 0.565 to 0.894. The mean value of E′/γ, Q−1 and ACE of wood species studied are in the range of 1.69×1010 Pa to 2.73×1010 Pa, 0.017 to 0.035 and 1.50×107 to 3.56×107 respectively. Based on the mean value of E′/γ, Endospermum Diadenum, Cratoxylum Arborescens, Macaranga Gigantea and Dyera Polyphylla are preferred for making all component of violin and guitar except for the top plate of violin. Commersonia Bartramia is preferred for making the back plate of violin and guitar, whereas Alstonia Pneumatophora is only preferred for making the back plate of violin.

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