Vibration Theory and Applications (Revised Edition), 1965, 1965

Document Type: Textbook (Technical).

Purpose: Training and Education.

Authority: Author Expertise.

Scope: "This text had its beginnings in the elementary book, Mechanical Vibrations, by the author, which appeared in its second edition in 1953. In the intervening years many changes have taken place in technology and in the manner in which engineering problems are handled. For example the development of the machine computing facilities has greatly increased the sophistication to which engineering problems can be treated. New and more difficult concepts are being incorporated into engineering design, leading to considerable revision in the mode of engineering instruction. This book Vibration Theory and Applications, presents the author's views and experience in the practice and teaching of vibrations. The presentation stresses fundamentals of vibrations based on dynamical principles with applications serving to illustrate the theory."

Contents: Chapter 1. Undamped Free Vibration 2. Damped Free Vibration 3. Forced Vibration with Harmonic Excitation 4. Transient Vibrations 5. Nonlinear Vibrations 6. Systems with Two Degrees of Freedom 7. Numerical Emthods for Multi-degree of Freedom Systems 8. Vibration of Continuous Systems 9. Lagrange's Equation 10. Random Vibrations Appendix A. Matrices Appendix B. Introduction to Laplace Transformation Appendix C. Normal Modes of Uniform Beams Appendix D. Specifications of Vibration Bounds Answers to Selected Problems Index