Civil Engineering Association

This book provides the background and techniques that will allow successful modeling, analysis, monitoring, testing, design, modification, and control of vibration in engineering systems. It is suitable as both a course textbook for students and instructors, and a practical reference tool for engineers and other professionals. As a textbook, it can be used in a single-semester course for third-year (junior) and fourth-year (senior) undergraduate students, or for Master’s level graduate students in any branch of engineering such as aeronautical and aerospace, civil, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering. But, in view of the practical considerations, design issues, experimental techniques, and instrumentation that are presented throughout the book, and in view of the simplified and snapshot-style presentation of fundamentals and advanced theory, the book will also serve as a valuable reference tool for engineers, technicians, and other professionals in industry and in research laboratories.

The book is an outgrowth of the author’s experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Dynamics, Mechanical Vibration, Dynamic System Modeling, Instrumentation and Design, Feedback Control, Modern Control Engineering, and Modal Analysis and Testing in the U.S. and Canada (Carnegie Mellon University and the University of British Columbia) for more than 20 years. The industrial experience and training that he received in product testing and qualification, analysis, design, and vibration instrumentation at places like Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, IBM Corporation in Boca Raton, NASA’s Langley and Lewis Research Centers, and Bruel and Kjaer in Denmark enabled the author to provide a realistic and practical treatment of the subject.