Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This comprehsive text is intended for use on one- or two-term introductory courses in vibrations taught to mechanical, aerospace, engineering mechanics, and civil engineering undergraduates. The work emphasizes design and extends the discussion of design beyond handbook solutions for component sizing to include the assumptions underlying the handbook solutions. Symbolic processing is introduced for those readers who want to extend their understanding of the fundamentals of vibration analysis. The text also includes historical references so that students will understand how vibration theories developed. Drill exercises have been added to the introductory chapters to help students understand basic concepts before proceeding to solve more complex problems requiring numerical results, and a new appendix has been added with tables covering mass, damping and stiffness properties of engineering materials.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Historical
• Introduction
• 1 Kinematics of Vibration
• 2 Natural Vibration About Equilibrium
• 3 Forced Harmonic Vibration
• 4 Energy Methods, Stability
• 5 Nonharmonic Excitation
• 6 Coupled Vibrating Systems
• 7 Lumped Mass Systems: Natural Vibration
• 8 Lumped Mass Systems: Forced Vibration
• 9 Continuous Systems
• 10 Approximate and Numerical Methods
• 11 Rotor Dynamics
• 12 Vibration of Nonlinear Systems
• 13 Vibrating Systems Design
• 14 Elements of Vibration Signal Processing and Random Excitation
• 15 Machinery Vibration: Monitoring and Diagnosis
• Appendix I Algorithmic Notation
• Appendix II Discrete Elements
• Appendix III Algebraic Identities
• Appendix IV Elements of Linear Algebra
• Appendix V Transfer Matrices
• Appendix VI Laplace Transforms
• Appendix VII Unit Conversion and Nomenclature
• Appendix VIII The Viblab Package
• Appendix IX Summary of Mathematical Commands
• Appendix X Tables of Material Properties Useful in Vibration Analysis
• Appendix XI Selected Vibration
• Bibliography
• Answers to Selected Problems
• Indexes