Download or read book Vibration Problems in Engineering written by W. Weaver, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Edition of this classic work retains the most useful portions of Timoshenko's book on vibration theory and introduces powerful, modern computational techniques. The normal mode method is emphasized for linear multi-degree and infinite-degree-of-freedom systems and numerical methods dominate the approach to nonlinear systems. A new chapter on the finite-element method serves to show how any continuous system can be discretized for the purpose of simplifying the analysis. Includes revised problems, examples of applications and computer programs.