Mechanical Vibrations: Modeling and Measurement
Tony Schmitz and Scott Smith, Chair of the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science department at UNC Charlotte, co-authored a text book entitled: “Mechanical Vibrations: Modeling and Measurement“. This book describes essential concepts in vibration analysis of mechanical systems. It incorporates the required mathematics, experimental techniques, fundamentals of modal analysis, and beam theory into a unified framework that is written to be accessible to undergraduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers alike. To demonstrate and unify the various concepts, the Beam Experimental Platform (BEP) is used throughout the text. Engineering drawings for the BEP are included in an appendix so that instructors can provide their own demonstrations in the classroom. Additionally, Matlab programming solutions are integrated into the text through many numerical examples.
Special features of “Mechanical Vibrations: Modeling and Measurement” include: 1) Matlab Mojo code examples; 2) By the Numbers numerical solutions; 3) a PowerPoint presentation that provides an introduction to Matlab programming; 4) chapter problems and solutions, including Matlab code; 5) non-mathematical In a Nutshell explanations that summarize selected concepts in layman’s terms; and 7) discussions and numerical examples of model uncertainty.