Vibration : fundamentals and practice

Vibration design and control is crucial to maintaining high performance levels and production efficiency and to prolonging the life of machinery, structures, and industrial processes. Before designing or controlling a system for good vibratory performance, the designer or engineer must understand, analyze, and model the vibratory characteristics of the system. Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice provides the background and techniques that will allow successful design, analysis, modification, and control of vibration in engineering systems. The author presents a uniform and coherent treatment of the subject-he introduces applications along with experimental techniques and instrumentation at the very beginning, then integrates these application, design, and control considerations into the fundamentals and analytical methods throughout the text. To maintain focus and maximize the text's usefulness, he describes and illustrates only the industry-standard and state-of-the-art software and hardware. In recent years, researchers and practitioners have devoted considerable effort towards studying and controlling vibration in a range of applications-machine tools, transit vehicles, impact processes, civil engineering structures, construction machinery, industrial processes, fluid flow systems, and aircraft-in various branches of engineering. Regardless of the application or discipline, with Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice, designers, engineers, and students can reap the benefits of that study and experience, and learn the observation, analysis, modification, and control techniques that produce systems, structures, and processes optimized against the effects of vibration. "Vibration design, testing, and control are crucial to maintaining high performance levels and production efficiency and to prolonging the useful life of machiners, structures, and industrial processes. Before designing or controlling a system for good vibratory performance, the designer or engineer must understand, model, and analyze the vibratory characteristics of the system.". "Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice provides the background and techniques that promote successful analysis, design, modification, testing, and control of vibration in engineering systems. It describes and illustrates the industry-standard and state-of-the-art procedures and hardware, offering a useful, modern treatment of experimental techniques, instrumentation, and applications."--BOOK JACKET. Annotation Provides the background and techniques that will allow successful modeling, analysis, monitoring, testing, design, modification, and control of vibration in engineering systems. De Silva (mechanical engineering, U. of British Columbia) presents 12 chapters that discuss vibration engineering, time and frequency response, signal and modal analysis, distributed-parameter systems, damping, instrumentation, signal conditioning and modification, testing, experimental modal analysis, design and control. The appendixes cover dynamic models and analogies, Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics, a review of linear algebra, digital Fourier analysis and FFT, and reliability considerations for multicomponent units Maintaining the outstanding features and practical approach that led the bestselling first edition to become a standard textbook in engineering classrooms worldwide, Clarence de Silva's Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice, Second Edition remains a solid instructional tool for modeling, analyzing, simulating, measuring, monitoring, testing, control