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Designed to keep pace with contemporary developments in the field of engineering vibration, this book and disk package integrates the fundamentals of introductory vibration analysis with additional topics that reflect some of the recent advances in vibration technology, changes in Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology criteria, and the incereased importance of engineering design, as well as modal analysis, damping and computational aspects. The accompanying software - Vibration Tool Box - is for use with the student edition of MATLAB. The user friendly programs run in both DOS and Macintosh environments.