KuTenk 2000 - SAER253906-Introduction to Structural Dynamics

by Bruce K. Donaldson 

2006 (568 pages)

ISBN:9780521865746

Providing students of aerospace, civil, or mechanical engineering with all the fundamentals of linear structural dynamics and scattered discussions of nonlinear structural dynamics, this textbook also contains numerous example problems and exercises.

Introduction to Structural Dynamics

Preface for the Student

Preface for the Instructor

List of Symbols

Chapter 1

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The Lagrange Equations of Motion

Chapter 2

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Mechanical Vibrations—Practice Using the Lagrange Equations

Chapter 3

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Review of the Basics of the Finite Element Method for Simple Elements

Chapter 4

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FEM Equations of Motion for Elastic Systems

Chapter 5

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Damped Structural Systems

Chapter 6

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Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes

Chapter 7

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The Modal Transformation

Chapter 8

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Continuous Dynamic Models

Chapter 9

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Numerical Integration of the Equations of Motion

Appendix I

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Answers to Exercises

Appendix II

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Fourier Transform Pairs