Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control, Third Edition

Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control simply and comprehensively addresses the fundamental principles of vibration theory, emphasizing its application in solving practical engineering problems. The authors focus on strengthening engineers’ command of mathematics as a cornerstone for understanding vibration, control, and the ways in which uncertainties affect analysis. It provides a detailed exploration and explanation of the essential equations involved in modeling vibrating systems and shows readers how to employ MATLAB^® as an advanced tool for analyzing specific problems.

Forgoing the extensive and in-depth analysis of randomness and control found in more specialized texts, this straightforward, easy-to-follow volume presents the format, content, and depth of description that the authors themselves would have found useful when they first learned the subject. The authors assume that the readers have a basic knowledge of dynamics, mechanics of materials, differential equations, and some knowledge of matrix algebra. Clarifying necessary mathematics, they present formulations and explanations to convey significant details.

The material is organized to afford great flexibility regarding course level, content, and usefulness in self-study for practicing engineers or as a text for graduate engineering students. This work includes example problems and explanatory figures, biographies of renowned contributors, and access to a website providing supplementary resources. These include an online MATLAB primer featuring original programs that can be used to solve complex problems and test solutions.

The third edition of Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control provides a more effective treatment of modeling. New chapters address the modeling of mechanical system components, especially different damping models, as well as numerical methods in vibrations. Suitable for both undergraduate and graduate course in vibrations, this comprehensive text also expands coverage of control, data and testing, kinematics and dynamics, as well as MATLAB™. An accompanying CD-ROM includes files for MATLAB examples and applications. Like its predecessors, this book presents self-contained chapters that allow for flexibility of topic coverage and the option to present advanced topics.

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This textbook is intended for a two-semester sequence in which the first class is undergraduate and the second is graduate. The book covers several aspects of single degree of freedom vibration, including discrete modeling with and without damping, probabilistic models of forces, and control. Other topics include the principle of virtual work and Lagrange's equation, multi degree of freedom vibration, and continuous models for vibration. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.