The book examines vibration phenomena with an emphasis on fractional vibrations using the functional form of linear vibrations with frequency-dependent mass, damping, or stiffness, covering the theoretical analysis potentially applicable to structures and, in particular, ship hulls.

Ming Li is a professor at Ocean College, Zhejiang University, China, and an emeritus professor at East China Normal University. He has been a contributor for many years to the fields of mathematics, statistics, mechanics, and computer science. His publications with CRC Press also include Multi-Fractal Traffic and Anomaly Detection in Computer Communications and Fractal Teletraffic Modeling and Delay Bounds in Computer Communications.