Clear, comprehensive, and balanced, this introduction teaches the use of vibration principles within a broad spectrum of applications. Appropriate for students taking their first course in vibrations and for professional reference, Vibrations effectively illustrates the use of principles with caarefully chosen examples form many diverse fields.
Authors Balakumar Balachandran and Edward B. Magreb include broad coverage of vibratory systems modeled as single degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Their balanced approach integrates the principles of linear and nonlinear systems with modeling, analysis prediction, and measurement illustrating the significance of the vibratory phenomena to engineering design.
1. Introduction
2. Modeling of Vibratory Systems
3. Single Degree-of-Freedom Systems: Governing Equations
4. Single Degree-of-Freedom Systems: Solution for Response and Free-Response Characteristics
5. Single Degree-of-Freedom Systems Subjected to Periodic Excitations
6. Single Degree-of-Freedom Systems Subjected to Transient Excitations
7. Multiple Degree-of-Freedom Systems: Governing Equations and Characteristics of Free Responses
8. Multiple Degree-of-Freedom Systems: General Solution for Response and Forced Oscillations
9. Vibrations of Beams