Elements of Mechanical Vibration (Second Edition), 1949, 1943

Document Type: Textbook (Technical).

Purpose: Training and Education.

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope (from Preface to Second Edition and Preface to First Edition): "The increased emphasis which engineers must give to noise elimination has indicated the desirability of including a fundamental discussion of the engineering aspects of this subject. Accordingly, a chapter on sound and its engineering applications has been included in the second edition of this book. Since beams are a very common structural element, they have been given additional emphasis by the previous material being combined with new material and presented as a separate chapter."

"It is the purpose of this book to discuss in detail the more elementary phases of vibrations and reduce them to a form in which they can be applied to practical problems.

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The text material has been kept as simple as possible and examples have been included to illustrate the methods, units, and application of the formulas developed."

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Vibrations without Damping 3. Damped Vibrations 4. Vibration of System with Several Degrees of Freedom 5. Vibration Isolation and Absorption 6. Equivalent Systems 7. Beams 8 Sound 9. The Mobility Method 10. Mechanical and Electrical Models of Vibration Systems Bibliography Answers Index