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Fundamentals of vibrations

Abstract:

An elastic system could exhibit oscillatory motion when external energy is supplied to the system. External energy can be supplied to the system through either an applied force or an imposed motion excitation. The applied force or motion excitation may be harmonic, periodic, nonperiodic, or random in nature. Real engineering systems can be modeled as discrete systems (single or multiple-degree-of-freedom system) or continuous system having an infinite number of degrees of freedom. The discrete system contains discrete masses and springs and even dampers, whereas the continuous system has distributed masses, springs and dampers. A vibration system may experience transient response under suddenly applied ...

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