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Does Atmospheric Corrosion Alter the Sound Quality of the Bronze Used for Manufacturing Bells?

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Bells are made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. Art objects and musical instruments belong to tangible and intangible heritage. The effect of atmospheric alteration on their sound is not well documented. To address this question, alteration cycles of bronze specimens are performed in a chamber reproducing a realistic polluted coastal atmosphere. The corrosion layers are characterized by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectrometry. The buried interface of the film (alloy-layer interface) is formed by a thin, adherent and micro-cracked layer, mainly composed of sulfates, copper oxide and chloride, on top of tin corrosion products. Near the atmosphere-film interface, less adherent irregular clusters of soot, calcite, gypsum and halite developed. Through these observations, an alteration scenario is proposed. To correlate the bronze corrosion effect on the bell sound, linear and nonlinear resonance experiments are performed on the corroded bronze specimens, where resonance parameters are monitored as a function of increasing driving force using a shaker. Results show that the corrosion effect on the acoustic properties can be monitored through the evolution of the acoustic nonlinear parameters (damping and resonance). These well-calibrated original experiments confirm the effect of corrosion on the acoustic properties of bronze.
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hal-04260826 , version 1 (26-10-2023)

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Mourad Bentahar, Aline Petitmangin, Caroline Blanc, Anne Chabas, Silvio Montresor, et al.. Does Atmospheric Corrosion Alter the Sound Quality of the Bronze Used for Manufacturing Bells?. Materials, 2023, 16 (13), pp.4763. ⟨10.3390/ma16134763⟩. ⟨hal-04260826⟩
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