Engineering Vibration, 4th Edition

Intended for use in one/two-semester introductory courses in vibration for undergraduates in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. This text is also suitable for readers with an interest in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics.

Serving as both a text and reference manual, Engineering Vibration, 4e, connects traditional design-oriented topics, the introduction of modal analysis, and the use of MATLAB, Mathcad, or Mathematica. The author provides an unequaled combination of the study of conventional vibration with the use of vibration design, computation, analysis and testing in various engineering applications.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction To Vibration And The Free Response
Chapter 2 Response To Harmonic Excitation
Chapter 3 General Forced Response
Chapter 4 Multiple-Degree-Of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 5 Design For Vibration Suppression
Chapter 6 Distributed-Parameter Systems
Chapter 7 Vibration Testing And Experimental Modal Analysis
Chapter 8 Finite Element Method
APPENDIX A: COMPLEX NUMBERS AND FUNCTIONS
APPENDIX B: LAPLACE TRANSFORMS
APPENDIX C: MATRIX BASICS
APPENDIX D: THE VIBRATION LITERATURE
APPENDIX E: LIST OF SYMBOLS
APPENDIX F: CODES AND WEB SITES
APPENDIX G: ENGINEERING VIBRATION TOOLBOX AND WEB SUPPORT