Mechanical vibrations /
Singiresu S. Rao.
- 5th ed.
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2011.
- xx, 1084 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fundamentals of vibration -- Free vibration of single degree of freedom systems -- Harmonically excited vibration -- Vibration under general forcing conditions -- Two degree of freedom systems -- Multidegree of freedom systems -- Determination of natural frequencies and mode shapes -- Continuous sytems -- Vibration control -- Vibration measurement and applications -- Numerical integration methods in vibration analysis -- Finite element method -- Nonlinear vibration -- Random vibration -- Appendices: Mathematical relationships; Deflectins of beams and plates; Matrices; Laplace transform pairs; Units; Introduction to MATLAB.