Author Description

Introduction to Vibration in Engineering is a concisely written text that helps students master the fundamentals of vibration. Students learn how to construct equations of motion using the energy approach, as well as the Newton's second law, and how to use analytical and computational tools for vibration analysis. Clear and concise, the book covers free and forced vibration response, steady state responses of single degree of freedom systems, and the multi-degrees of freedom systems. Other topics include dynamic stability as well as aeroelasticity, vibration absorber, and finite element modeling. Each chapter features problem sets that allow students to immediately apply what they have learned. The second edition features a new chapter on modal and input force identification, which explores time domain methods as ways to extract data in practical cases. Incorporating student feedback, this edition also includes increased explanation of convolution integral and first-order representation. Designed for undergraduate seniors and first-year graduate students, Introduction to Vibration in Engineering is written for one-semester courses in aerospace and mechanical engineering and requires sophomore-level mathematics ability, including elementary linear algebra. Sung Lee received his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches courses in vibration and aeroelasticity, computational structural mechanics, and nonlinear finite element analysis. Norman Wereley earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Minta Martin Professor and chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Wereley holds numerous patents and is the editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material S