Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice - Hardcover

De Silva, Clarence W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849318084 ISBN 13: 9780849318085

Publisher: CRC Press, 1999

Synopsis

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, controlling, and designing for vibration in engineering systems. It condenses the author's distinguished and extensive experience into an easy-to-use, highly practical text that prepares students for real problems in a variety of engineering fields.

What's New in the Second Edition?

A new chapter on human response to vibration, with practical considerations

Expanded and updated material on vibration monitoring and diagnosis

Enhanced section on vibration control, updated with the latest techniques and methodologies

New worked examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Incorporates software tools, including LabVIEW™, SIMULINK®, MATLAB®, the LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolbox, and the MATLAB Control Systems Toolbox

Enhanced worked examples and new solutions using MATLAB and SIMULINK

The new chapter on human response to vibration examines representation of vibration detection and perception by humans as well as specifications and regulatory guidelines for human vibration environments.

Remaining an indispensable text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice, Second Edition builds a unique and in-depth understanding of vibration on a sound framework of practical tools and applications.

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Review

"serves as a reference for engineers and techniciansprovides needed background for many aspects in the control of vibrations including analysis and design, control, testing, and modeling." --CHOICE

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0849318084
• ISBN 13: 9780849318085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1064