Mechanical Vibrations: Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics

by Michel Géradin, Daniel J. Rixen

"Mechanical Vibrations: Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics, Third Edition "is a comprehensively updated and reorganized new edition of the popular textbook. It presents the theory of vibrations in the context of structural analysis and covers applications in mechanical and aerospace engineering, This new edition now includes the fundamentals of signal processing and identification technique, and develops the concepts of dynamic reduction and substructuring.

A more detailed discussion of the concept of eigensolution sensitivity to physical parameters is included and the fundamental cases of wave propagation in solids are considered. It also includes a chapter on the finite element method for one-dimensional structures.

This new edition contains coherent and uniform notation and now includes solved exercises at the end of each chapter.

616 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 1994

Reviews

[trivialchemy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hardcore formalism porn for the vibrational cognoscenti. If you enjoy stroking it to nested summations and notationally obscure representations of Lagrangian dynamics, this book is guaranteed to give you a rager. If, on the other hand, you want to learn about mechanical vibrations in dynamic structures anywhere beneath the level of abstraction of triple-coordinate changes into eigenmode bases, buy a bridge and a slinky.

[Changjiang Shao · Rating 5 out of 5]

the book is excellent in dynamical theory and applicaiton of engineering structure