Structural Dynamics: Volume 50

Peretz P. Friedmannis the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of theAIAA Journal, and was awarded the 2022 Reed Aeronautics Award – the highest honor bestowed by AIAA for notable achievements in aeronautics – as well as the Alexander Klemin Award, the highest honor bestowed by the VFS for advancing the field of vertical flight aeronautics. He is a Fellow of AIAA and an Honorary Fellow of VFS. George A. Lesieutre is Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Aerospace Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is a Fellow of the AIAA and was awarded the SPIE Lifetime Achievement Award in Smart Structures and Materials. Daning Huang is Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, where his research focuses on hypersonic aeroelasticity and aerothermoelasticity, multi-disciplinary analysis and design, reduced-order modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems, and high-performance computing.

Preface; 1. Review: dynamics of SDOF systems; 2. Principles of structural dynamics; 3. Natural modes of vibration: continuous systems; 4. Finite element method and model reduction; 5. Natural modes of vibration: discrete systems; 6. Damping; 7. Dynamic response of structures; 8. Structural dynamics of rotating systems; 9. Stability and response problems of periodic systems; Appendix A: Linear algebra and matrix methods; Appendix B: Laplace transforms; Appendix C: Gaussian quadrature; Appendix D: Pseudocode for describing algorithms; Index.