Description
Book SynopsisIntended as an introduction to mechanical vibration, William Palm's text is designed for courses typically offered in the junior or senior year in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or engineering mechanics curricula. Common applications of the subject include vehicle suspension systems and vibration isolators and absorbers designed to minimize the effects of vibration on people and machines. Prerequisite subject is dynamics, and
Mechanical Vibration provides many examples of deriving vibration models from dynamics principles.
The first seven chapters form the core text material. One or more of the remaining four chapters may be covered, depending on the time available and on the emphasis desired by the instructor. Because MATLAB is now the standard applications language used in engineering curricula, this language is emphasized in the text, via separate sections at the end of chapter. In addition, Simulink, which provides a graphical user interface that
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Mechanical Vibration.
Chapter 2. Models with One Degree of Freedom.
Chapter 3. Free Response with a Single Degree of Freedom.
Chapter 4. Harmonic Response with a Single Degree of Freedom.
Chapter 5. General Forced Response.
Chapter 6. Two-Degree of Freedom Systems.
Chapter 7. Vibration Suppression and Control.
Chapter 8. Matrix Methods for Multi-Degree of Freedom Systems.
Chapter 9. Vibration Measurement and Testing.
Chapter 10. Distributed Systems.
Chapter 11. Dynamic Finite Element Analysis.
Appendix A: Introduction to MATLAB.
Appendix B: Numerical Solution Methods.
Appendix C: Mechanical Properties of Common Metals.
