本书是振动理论的典型教材之一，以讲述线性振动理论为主，从单自由度、多自由度到连续体，从自由振动到强迫振动（包括无阻尼和有阻尼情况），从间谐激励、冲击激励到一般激励，最后两章还介绍了随机振动和非线性振动，内容丰富、叙述清晰、例题和习题与工程应用相结合，是一本在国外受到普遍赞赏的畅销教材，至今已经出到第5版。

利用计算机分析多自由度、复杂结构系统动力响应的数值分析方法已经成为解决工程振动问题必不可少的重要手段，在这方面本书为读者打下了坚实的理论基础。第5版更加强了学生利用MATLAB等软件求解工程振动问题能力的训练。

本书内容与我国多学时振动理论课程的教学要求相近，可以作为力学、汽车等专业本科生和工科专业研究生振动理论课程的外文教材或参考书，也可供有关工程设计人员和研究人员参考。

PREFACE
THESISYSTEMOFUNITS.
CHAPTER1OSCILLATORYMOTION
1.1HarmonicMotion
1.2PeriodicMotion
1.3VibrationTerminology
CHAPTER2FREEVIBRATION
2.1VibrationModel
2.2EquationofMotion:NaturalFrequency
2.3EnergyMethod
2.4RayleighMethod:EffectiveMass
2.5PrincipleofVirtualWork
2.6ViscouslyDampedFreeVibration
2.7LogarithmicDecrement
2.8CoulombDamping
CHAPTER3HARMONICALLYEXCITEDVIBRATION
3.1ForcedHarmonicVibration
3.2RotatingUnbalance
3.3RotorUnbalance
3.4WhirlingofRotatingShafts
3.5SupportMotion
3.6VibrationIsolation
3.7EnergyDissipatedbyDamping
3.8EquivalentViscousDamping
3.9StructuralDamping
3.10SharpnessofResonance
3.11Vibration-MeasuringInstruments
CHAPTER4TRANSIENTVIBRATION
4.1ImpulseExcitation
4.2ArbitraryExcitation
4.3LaplaceTransformFormulation
4.4PulseExcitationandRiseTime
4.5ShockResponseSpectrum
4.6ShockIsolation
4.7FiniteDifferenceNumericalComputation
4.8Runge-KuttaMethod
CHAPTER5SYSTEMSWITHTWOORMOREDEGREESOFFREEDOM
5.1TheNormalModeAnalysis
5.2InitialConditions
5.3CoordinateCoupling
5.4ForcedHarmonicVibration
5.5FiniteDifferenceMethodforSystemsofEquations
5.6VibrationAbsorber
5.7CentrifugalPendulumVibrationAbsorber
5.8VibrationDamper
CHAPTER6PROPERTIESOFVIBRATING
SYSTEMS
6.1FlexibilityInfluenceCoefficients
6.2ReciprocityTheorem
6.3StiffnessInfluenceCoefficients
6.4StiffnessMatrixofBeamElements
6.5StaticCondensationforPinnedJoints
6.6OrthogonalityofEigenvectors
6.7ModalMatrix
6.8DecouplingForcedVibrationEquations
6.9ModalDampinginForcedVibration
6.10NormalModeSummation
6.11EqualRoots..
6.12Unrestrained(Degenerate)Systems
CHAPTER7LAGRANGE'SEQUATION
7.1GeneralizedCoordinates
7.2VirtualWork
7.3Lagrange'sEquation
KineticEnergy,PotentialEnergy,
andGeneralizedForceinTermsof
GeneralizedCoordinatesq
AssumedModeSummation
COMPUTATIONALMETHODS
RootSolving
EigenvectorsbyGaussElimination
MatrixIteration
ConvergenceoftheIterationProcedure
TheDynamicMatrix
TransformationCoordinates(Standard
ComputerForm)
SystemswithDiscreteMassMatrix
CholeskyDecomposition
JacobiDiagonalization
QRMethodforEigenvalueand
EigenvectorCalculation
VIBRATIONOFCONTINUOUS
SYSTEMS
VibratingString
LongitudinalVibrationofRods
TorsionalVibrationofRods
VibrationofSuspensionBridges
EulerEquationforBeams
SystemwithRepeatedIdenticalSections
CHAPTER10INTRODUCTIONTOTHEFINITEELEMENTMETHOD
10.1ElementStiffnessandMass
10.2StiffnessandMassfortheBeamElement
10.3TransformationofCoordinates(GlobalCoordinates)
10.4ElementStiffnessandElementMassinGlobalCoordinates
10.5VibrationsInvolvingBeamElements
10.6SpringConstraintsonStructure
10.7GeneralizedForceforDistributedLoad
10.8GeneralizedForceProportionaltoDisplacement
CHAPTER11MODE-SUMMATIONPROCEDURESFORCONTINUOUSSYSTEMS
11.1Mode-SummationMethod
11.2NormalModesofConstrainedStructures
11.3Mode-AccelerationMethod
11.4Component-ModeSynthesis
CHAPTER12CLASSICALMETHODS
12.1RayleighMethod
12.2Dunkerley'sEquation
12.3Rayleigh-RitzMethod
12.4HolzerMethod
12.5DigitalComputerProgramfortheTorsionalSystem
12.6Myklestad'sMethodforBeams
12.7CoupledFlexure-TorsionVibration
12.8TransferMatrices
12.9SystemswithDamping
12.10GearedSystem
12.11BranchedSystems
12.12TransferMatricesforBeams
CHAPTER13RANDOMVIBRATIONS
13.1RandomPhenomena
13.2TimeAveragingandExpectedValue
13.3FrequencyResponseFunction
13.4ProbabilityDistribution
13.5Correlation
13.6PowerSpectrumandPowerSpectralDensity
13.7FourierTransforms
13.8FTsandResponse
CHAPTER14NONLINEARVIBRATIONS
14.1PhasePlane
14.2ConservativeSystems
14.3StabilityofEquilibrium
14.4MethodofIsoclines
14.5PerturbationMethod
14.6MethodofIteration
14.7Self-ExcitedOscillations
14.8Runge-KuttaMethod
APPENDICES
ASpecificationsofVibrationBounds
BIntroductiontoLaplaceTransformation
CDeterminantsandMatirces
DNormalModesofUniformBeams
EIntroductiontoMATLAB
FComputerPrograms...
GConvergencetoHigherModes
ANSWERSTOSELECTEDPROBLEMS
INDEX