Fundamentals of Vibrations
Intended for introductory vibrations courses, Meirovitch offers a masterfully crafted textbook that covers all basic concepts at a level appropriate for undergraduate students. The book contains a chapter on the use of Finite Element Methods in vibrational analysis. Meirovitch uses selective worked examples to show the application of MATLAB software in this course. The author's approach challenges students with a precise and thoughtful explanations and motivates them through use of physical...
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Intended for introductory vibrations courses, Meirovitch offers a masterfully crafted textbook that covers all basic concepts at a level appropriate for undergraduate students. The book contains a chapter on the use of Finite Element Methods in vibrational analysis. Meirovitch uses selective worked examples to show the application of MATLAB software in this course. The author's approach challenges students with a precise and thoughtful explanations and motivates them through use of physical explanations, plentiful problems, worked-out examples, and illustrations.
1 Concepts from Vibrations2 Response of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems to Initial Excitations3 Response of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems to Harmonic and Periodic Excitations4 Response of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Systems to Nonperiodic Excitations 5 Two-Degree-of-Freedom Systems6 Elements of Analytical Dynamics7 Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems8 Distributed-Parameter Systems: Exact Solutions9 Distributed-Parameter Systems: Approximate Methods10 The Finite Element Method11 Nonlinear Oscilations12 Random VibrationsAppendixesA Fourier SeriesB Laplace TransformationC Linear Algebra
