made@berkeleyTsar Bell Friday, April 15 through Saturday, April 16, 2016
Sather Tower, UC Berkeley
Does a bell have to ring before it is truly a bell? The Russian Tsar Bell was the largest bell ever cast at over 200 tons. But in 1732, before it was even struck, this Goliath of bells broke. Its parts have been on display in the Kremlin ever since. Now, a team of UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers are making the Tsar Bell ring for the very first time.
With Finite Element Analysis (FEA), they created a computational model of what the...
