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Structural Dynamics and Vibration in Practice
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Structural Dynamics and Vibration in Practice

by Douglas Thorby
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 52m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
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Basic Concepts

This introductory chapter discusses some of the basic concepts in the fascinating subject of structural dynamics.

1.1 Statics, dynamics and structural dynamics

Statics deals with the effect of forces on bodies at rest. Dynamics deals with the motion of nominally rigid bodies. The two aspects of dynamics are kinematics and kinetics. Kinematics is concerned only with the motion of bodies with geometric constraints, irrespective of the forces acting. ...

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ISBN: 9780750680028