Exploration of Fundamentals of Vibrations
Catalog Description:
Theory of vibration of lumped-parameter multi-degree-of-freedom systems; distributed-parameter systems; exact and approximate solutions; nonlinear and random vibrations. Experimental methods and design procedures. (Lec. 3) Pre: 366 or 464 or equivalent.
Required Text:
Leonard Meirovitch (2001) Fundamentals of Vibration, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Suggested Optional Texts:
(1) Jerry H. Ginsberg
(2001) Mechanical and Structural Vibrations: Theory and
Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY.
(2) Singiresu S. Rao (2004) Mechanical Vibrations, Fourth Edition,
Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
