Theory of Vibrations with Applications / Edition 5

by William Thomson, Marie Dillon Dahleh

Overview

Junior or Senior level Vibration courses in Departments of Mechanical Engineering.

A thorough treatment of vibration theory and its engineering applications, from simple degree to multi degree-of-freedom system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780136510680
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	08/07/1997
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

The SI System of Units.


1. Oscillatory Motion.


2. Free Vibration.


3. Harmonically Excited Vibration.


4. Transient Vibration.


5. Systems with Two or More Degrees of Freedom.


6. Properties of Vibrating Systems.


7. Lagrange's Equation.


8. Computational Methods.


9.Vibration of Continuous Systems.


10. Introduction to the Finite Element Method.


11. Mode-Summation Procedures for Continuous Systems.


12. Classical Methods.


13. Random Vibrations.


14. Nonlinear Vibrations.


Appendices.


Answers to Selected Problems.


Index.