Junior or Senior level Vibration courses in Departments of Mechanical Engineering. A thorough treatment of vibration theory and its engineering applications, from simple degree to multi degree-of-freedom system.
The SI System of Units. 1. Oscillatory Motion. 2. Free Vibration. 3. Harmonically Excited Vibration. 4. Transient Vibration. 5. Systems with Two or More Degrees of Freedom. 6. Properties of Vibrating Systems. 7. Lagrange's Equation. 8. Computational Methods. 9.Vibration of Continuous Systems. 10. Introduction to the Finite Element Method. 11. Mode-Summation Procedures for Continuous Systems. 12. Classical Methods. 13. Random Vibrations. 14. Nonlinear Vibrations. Appendices. Answers to Selected Problems. Index.
