Engineering Vibrations
by: Daniel J. Inman
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From Book News - This textbook for junior and senior engineering students combines traditional introductory vibration with the use of vibration design, analysis and testing in engineering practice. The second edition integrates the Mathematica and Mathcad computational software.Book News, Inc.?, Portland, OR
Book Info - Textbook encouraging students to learn vibration in an interactive way, to solidify the design components of vibration and to integrate nonlinear vibration problems. Highlights include integration of computational software such as Mathematica and MathCAD in each chapter and introductions to modal and dynamic finite element analysis. Previous edition: DLC: Engineering Vibration.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics - The goal of this text is to combine the study of traditional introductory vibration with the use of vibration design, analysis and testing in engineering practice. This text represents an integration of traditional topics with a design emphasis, the introduction of modal analysis, and the inclusion of a professional quality software package.--
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From the Back Cover - This text presents material common to a first course in vibration and the integration of computational software packages into the development of the text material (specifically makes use of MATLAB, MathCAD, and Mathematica). This allows solution of difficult problems, provides training in the use of codes commonly used in industry, encourages students to experiment with equations of vibration by allowing easy "what if" solutions. This also allows students to make precision response plots, computation of frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes. This encourages students to learn vibration in an interactive way, to solidify the design components of vibration and to integrate nonlinear vibration problems earlier in the text. The text explicitly addresses design by grouping design related topics into a single chapter and using optimization, and it connects the computation of natural frequencies and mode shapes to the standard eigenvalue problem, providing efficient and expert computation of the modal properties of a system. In addition, the text covers modal testing methods, which are typically not discussed in competing texts.
Highlights of the Second Edition
? Integration of computational software to include Mathematica and MathCAD as well as MATLAB in each chapter, updated Engineering Vibration Toolbox and web site.
? Integration of the numerical simulation and computing into each topic by chapter
? Nonlinear considerations added at the end of each early chapter through simulation
? Additional problems and examples
? Updated solutions manual available on CD for use in teaching
? Uses "windows" to remind the reader of relevant facts outside the flow of the text development
? Introduces modal analysis (both theoretical and experimental)
? Introduces dynamic finite element analysis
? Separate chapter on design and special sections to emphasize design in vibration
Explains concepts very clearly and with lots of examples - I am taking a graduate course in linear vibrations and I have been using this book because I find it way easier to understand than the more "advanced" one recommended on the course outline. The book explains how to use MatLab for Vibration analysis, which is a very powerful tool.
Basic intro:covers broad beginnings but slights practical - This book covers the basic material, but other books such as Schaum's Outline cover a lot of the same basic material. The Appendix on the Literature section is useful as an access point to other books on the text. Hartog's book has more applied information. SS Rao's book has stronger theoretical development. It is not strong on the mechanics of performing modal analysis from a mathematical approach. There are also better examples of LaGrange's method. Overall it is ok for a junior year text, but needs supplementing by the instructor. Wowk's book covers machinery vibration better. My biggest complaint would be that Inman doesn't cover sensing and other practical topics well.
Outstanding Text and Reference Book - I am currently teaching the introductory course in Mechanical Vibrations at California State University, Fullerton, and chose Dr. Inman's book after evaluating several different texts. The material is well organized, there are numerous practical examples, and the book is easy to read. The book contains substantial material on nonlinear vibrations, and numerical solutions, items that are of immense practical importance. Methods of solution are covered in three different software packages, MathCAD, MATLAB and Mathematica, which, when combined with the quantity of homework problems, allows the Instructor to tailor the class to his or her own preferences. Additionally, I am also a practicing engineer, currently employed by a manufacturer of vibration exciters, and have found the material on vibration testing to be accurate and informative. This makes the book valuable as a reference, as well as a textbook.