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Mechanical Vibration Analysis and Computation

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ISBN-10: 0486445178

ISBN-13: 9780486445175

Edition: 2006

Authors: D. E. Newland

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Focusing on applications rather than rigorous proofs, this volume is suitable as a text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students concerned with vibration problems. It also serves as a practical handbook for performing vibration calculations and features extensive appendices and answers to selected problems. 128 figures. 1989 edition.
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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Preface
Disclaimer of warranty
Selected topics for a first course on vibration analysis and computation
Acknowledgements
Fundamental concepts
General solution for one degree of freedom
Steady-state harmonic response
Expansion of the frequency-response function in partial fractions
Negative frequencies
Root locus diagram
Impulse response
Special case of repeated eigenvalues
Frequency response of linear systems
General form of the frequency-response function
Example of vibration isolation
Logarithmic and polar plots
General expansion in partial fractions
Expansion for complex eigenvalues
Numerical examples
Undamped response
Undamped mode shapes
Damped response
Logarithmic and polar plots of the damped response
Partial-fraction expansion when there are repeated eigenvalues
Frequency response of composite systems
Natural frequencies of composite systems
General response properties
Terminology
Properties of logarithmic response diagrams
Receptance graphs
Properties of the skeleton
Mobility graphs
Reciprocity relations
Measures of damping
Logarithmic decrement
Bandwidth
Energy dissipation
Modal energy
Proportional energy loss per cycle
Loss angle of a resilient element
Forced harmonic vibration with hysteretic damping
Numerical example
Time for resonant oscillations to build up
Acceleration through resonance
Matrix analysis
First-order formulation of the equation of motion
Eigenvalues of the characteristic equation
Finding the A-matrix and its eigenvalues
Calculating eigenvalues
Eigenvectors
Normal coordinates
Uncoupling the equations of motion
General solution for arbitrary excitation
Application to a single-degree-of-freedom system
Solution for the harmonic response
Comparison with the general expansion in partial fractions
Case of coupled second-order equations
Transforming to nth-order form
Reduction of M second-order equations to 2M first-order equations
General solution of M coupled second-order equations
General response calculation
Natural frequencies and mode shapes
Introduction
Conservative systems
Example calculations for undamped free vibration
Systems with three degrees of freedom
Bending vibrations of a tall chimney
Torsional vibrations of a diesel-electric generator system
Non-conservative systems
Example calculations for damped free vibration
Systems with three degrees of freedom
Interpretation of complex eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Damped vibrations of a tall chimney
Stability of a railway bogie
Checks on accuracy
Singular and defective matrices
Singular mass matrix
Three-degree-of-freedom system with a singular mass matrix
System with a zero mass coordinate
General case when one degree of freedom has zero mass
Multiple eigenvalues
Calculating the Jordan matrix and principal vectors
Example of a torsional system with multiple eigenvalues
Interpretation of principal vectors
Numerical methods for modal analysis
Calculation of eigenvalues
Eigenvalues of a triangular matrix
Step (i) Transformation to Hessenberg form
Step (ii) Transformation from Hessenberg to triangular form
Eigenvalues of a nearly triangular matrix
Choice of the transformation matrices for the QR method
Practical eigenvalue calculation procedure
Calculation to find the eigenvalues of a 5 x 5 matrix
Calculation of the determinant of a Hessenberg matrix
Calculation of eigenvectors
Inversion of a complex matrix
Discussion
Response functions
General response of M coupled second-order equations
Properties of the partitioned eigenvector matrix
Frequency-response functions matrix
Computation of frequency-response functions
Frequency-response functions of the torsional system in Fig. 8.2
Frequency-response functions when the eigenvector matrix is defective
Frequency-response function of a system with repeated eigenvalues
Alternative method of computing the frequency-response function matrix
Impulse-response function matrix
Computation of impulse-response functions
Impulse-response functions of the torsional system of Fig. 8.2
Impulse-response functions when the eigenvector matrix is defective
Use of the matrix exponential function
Application to the general response equation
Application of response functions
Fourier transforms
Delta functions
The convolution integral
Unit step and unit pulse responses
Step response of the torsional system in Fig. 8.2
Time-domain to frequency-domain transformations
General input-output relations
Case of periodic excitation
Example calculation for the torsional vibration of a diesel engine
Discrete response calculations
Discrete Fourier transforms
Properties of the DFT
Relationship between the discrete and continuous Fourier transforms
Discrete calculations in the frequency domain
Discrete calculations in the time domain
Discrete finite-difference calculations
Numerical integration
Stability
Fourth-order Runge-Kutta method
Variable stepsize
Systems with symmetric matrices
Introduction
Lagrange's equations
Application of Lagrange's equation
Potential energy of a linear elastic system
Kinetic energy for small-amplitude vibrations
General equations of small-amplitude vibration
Special properties of systems with symmetric matices
Three important theorems
Standard forms of the equations of motion
Proof that a positive-definite matrix always has an inverse
Similarity transformation to find a symmetric matrix that is similar to m[superscript -1]k
Eigenvectors of m[superscript -1]k
Proof that the eigenvalues of m[superscript -1]k cannot be negative
Other orthogonality conditions
Alternative proof of orthogonality when the eigenvalues are distinct
Time response of lightly-damped symmetric systems
Frequency response of lightly-damped symmetric systems
Impulse-response and frequency-response matrices
Reciprocity relations
Modal truncation
Computational aspects
Scaling of eigenvectors
Damping assumptions
Causality conditions
Continuous systems I
Normal mode functions
Equations of motion
Longitudinal vibration of an elastic bar
Impulse-response and frequency-response functions
Application to an elastic bar I
Alternative closed-form solution for frequency response
Application to an elastic bar II
Frequency-response functions for general damping
Frequency-response functions for moving supports
Application to an elastic column with a moving support
Example of a flexible column on a resilient foundation
Response at the top of the column
Alternative damping model
Discussion of damping models
General response equations for continuous systems
Continuous systems II
Properties of Euler beams
Simply-supported beam
Beams with other boundary conditions
Simply-supported rectangular plates
Timoshenko beam
Effect of rotary inertia alone
Effect of rotary inertia and shear together
Beam with a travelling load
Approximate natural frequencies
Rayleigh's method
Example of the whirling of a shaft subjected to external pressure
The Rayleigh-Ritz method
Corollaries of Rayleigh's principle
Parametric and nonlinear effects
Introduction
Parametric stiffness excitation
Solutions of the Mathieu equation
Stability regions
Approximate stability boundaries
Effect of damping on stability
Autoparametric systems
Internal resonance
Nonlinear jump phenomena
Stability of forced vibration with nonlinear stiffness
Numerical integration: chaotic response
Methods for finding the periodic response of weakly nonlinear systems
Galerkin's method
Ritz's method
Krylov and Bogoliubov's method
Comparison between the methods of Galerkin and Krylov-Bogoliubov for steady-state vibrations
Nonlinear response of a centrifugal pendulum vibration absorber
Logical flow diagrams
Upper Hessenberg form of a real, unsymmetric matrix A(N, N) using Gaussian elimination with interchanges
One iteration of the QR transform
Eigenvalues of a real unsymmetric matrix A(N, N) by using the QR transform of Appendix 2
Determinant of an upper-Hessenberg matrix by Hyman's method
Eigenvectors of a real matrix A(N, N) whose eigenvalues are known
Inverse of a complex matrix
One Runge-Kutta fourth-order step
Problems
Answers to selected problems
List of references
Summary of main formulae
Index