Mechanical Vibrations 4e

Serving as an introduction to vibration engineering, this undergraduate textbook covers the theory, computational aspects, and applications of vibrations. Chapters discuss various degrees of freedom, harmonically excited vibration, general forcing conditions, the determination of natural frequencies, continuous systems, vibration control, vibration measurement and applications, numerical integration methods, finite element methods, nonlinear vibration, and random vibration. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR