Maintaining the outstanding features and practical approach that led the bestselling first edition to become a standard textbook in engineering classrooms worldwide, Clarence de Silva's Vibration: Fundamentals and Practice, Second Edition remains a solid instructional tool for modeling, analyzing, simulating, measuring, monitoring, testing, control

Vibration Engineering. Time Response. Frequency Response. Vibration Signal Analysis. Modal Analysis. Distributed-Parameter Systems. Vibration Damping. Vibration Instrumentation. Signal Conditioning and Modification. Vibration Testing and Human Response. Experimental Modal Analysis. Vibration Design and Control. Appendix A: Dynamic Models and Analogies. Appendix B: Newtonian and Lagrangian Mechanics. Appendix C: Review of Linear Algebra. Appendix D: Laplace Transform. Appendix E: Digital Fourier Analysis and FFT. Appendix F: Software Tools. Appendix G: Reliability Considerations for Multi-Component Units. Index.