Mechanical Vibrations, 2012
Modeling and Measurement

Mechanical Vibrations: Modeling and Measurement describes essential concepts in vibration analysis of mechanical systems. It incorporates the required mathematics, experimental techniques, fundamentals of model analysis, and beam theory into a unified framework that is written to be accessible to undergraduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers. To unify the various concepts, a single experimental platform is used throughout the text. Engineering drawings for the platform are included in an appendix. Additionally, MATLAB programming solutions are integrated into the content throughout the text.

Introduction.- Single degree of freedom free vibration.- Single degree of freedom forced vibration.- Two degree of freedom free vibration.- Two degree of freedom forced vibration.- Model development by modal analysis.- Measurement techniques.- Continuous beam models.- Receptance coupling.- Appendix A: Orthogonality of eigenvectors.- Appendix B: Beam experimental platform.

Discusses model development using frequency response function measurements

Presents a clear connection between continuous beam models and discrete finite degree of freedom models

Includes MATLAB code for numerical examples that is integrated in the text narrative

Covers a single physical model that is used to demonstrate concepts throughout the text

Uses mathematics to support the vibrations theory, and discusses and emphasizes the practical significance of the results

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