MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS

by R. VENKATACHALAM

Overview

Aiming at undergraduate and postgraduate students of mechanical engineering, the book has been written with a long teaching experience of the author. Lucid and beyond traditional writing style makes the text different from other books. In this text, every effort has been taken to make the subject easy and interesting. The concepts have been explained in such a manner that students do not require any prerequisite knowledge.The text amalgamated with real-world examples help students adhere to the book and learn the concepts on their own. Throughout the book, engaging and thought-provoking approach has been followed.It discusses free and forced vibrations of undamped and damped single degree freedom systems, self-excited vibrations, vibrations of two and multi degree freedom systems, vibrations of continuous systems and Lagrangian formulation.A chapter on ‘Set up a Mechanical Vibration Laboratory’ helps students and teachers to learn how to develop a basic laboratory without involving a heavy cost.Besides undergraduate and postgraduate students, this text also serves as a launch pad for those who want to pursue research.Key Features• Simple practical demonstrations.• Helps the student in developing important skills such as reasoning, interpretation and physical visualisation.• Helps to develop software.• Prepares for competitive examinations.• There are nearly 50 problems illustrated and around 200 problems given in exercises for practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788120350359
Publisher:	PHI Learning
Publication date:	11/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

R. Venkatachalam, Ph.D., graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal. He has over 30 years of experience in teaching the subject of vibrations and has credit of nearly 70 research publications. He also has to his credit two patents for his inventions of new steering mechanisms for automobiles. He is a member of Space Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, SAE and the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2004–2005) and the Dean of Academic Affairs (2005–2009) at NIT, Warangal and the Dean of Faculty of Engineering at Kakatiya University, Warangal (2007–2011).

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction2. A Start to Study of Vibrations3. Some more Problems of Free Vibrations 4. Free Oscillations of Rigid Bodies5. Outline of Study of Vibrations6. Energy Methods in Vibrations7. Forced Vibrations of Undamped Single Degree Freedom system8. Resonance9. Self Excited Oscillations10. Free Vibrations of Damped Single Degree Freedom System11. Forced Vibrations of Damped Single Degree Freedom System12. Transient Vibrations13. Two Degree Freedom Systems14. Multi Degree Freedom Systems15. Numerical Methods16. Lagrangian Formulation17. Vibrations of Continuous Systems18. Set up A Mechanical Vibration Laboratory19. ClosureAppendices A. Preliminary Ideas on Ordinary Differential Equations B. Large Angle Oscillations of Simple Pendulum C. Artificial Gravity D. Finding Moments of Inertia E. Modulus of a Complex Quantity F. Deflection of Beams G. For Transient Vibration Studies H. Matrices and Eigenvalue Problem I. Development of Runge Kutta Algorithm J. Convergence of Matrix Iteration Method K. Oscillations of Pendulum Under Coulomb Damping L. Oscillations under Stick Slip Motion M. Vibrations under Periodic Impulses Answers to Problems for PracticeIndex