Applied Structural and Mechanical Vibrations

Paolo L. Gatti graduated in nuclear physics from the State University of Milano (Italy) and worked for 12 years for a private engineering company, where he became head of the vibration testing and data acquisition department. Since 2000, he has worked as an independent consultant in mechanical and structural vibrations, acoustics, and statistical analyses of experimental data. In these fields of activity, he is also an accredited technical consultant for the Court of Justice of Milan. He is also the author of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics for Engineers, published by Spon Press (Taylor & Francis Group) in 2005.

PART 1 – Theory and Methods, 1.Review of some fundamentals 2.Mathematical preliminaries 3.Analytical dynamics – an overview 4.Single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems 5.More SDOF – transient response and approximate methods 6.Multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems 7.More MDOF systems – forced vibrations and response analysis 8.Continuous or distributed parameters systems 9.MDOF and continuous systems – approximate methods 10.Experimental modal analysis (EMA) 11.Probability and statistics: preliminaries to random vibrations 12.Stochastic processes and random vibrations PART 2 – Measuring Instrumentation 13.Basic concepts of measurement and measuring instrumentation 14.Motion and vibration transducers 15.Signal conditioning and data acquisition