Vibration Dynamics and Control - Genta, Giancarlo

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Résumé :
Mechanical engineering,and engineering discipline born of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face p- found issues of productivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series is a series f- turing graduate texts and research monographs intended to address the need for information in contemporary areas of mechanical engineering. The series is conceived as a comprehensive one that covers a broad range of concentrations important to mechanical engineering graduate - ucation and research. We are fortunate to have a distinguished roster of series editors, each an expert in one of the areas of concentration. The names of the series editors are listed on page vi of this volume. The areas of concentration are applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational - chanics, dynamic systems and control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing, thermal science, and tribology. Preface After15yearssincethepublicationofVibrationofStructuresandMachines and three subsequent editions a deep reorganization and updating of the material was felt necessary. This new book on the subject of Vibration dynamics and control is organized in a larger number of shorter chapters, hoping that this can be helpful to the reader. New materialhas been added and many points have been updated. A larger number of examples and of exercises have been included.

Biographie:
Giancarlo Genta has been full Professor of Construction of Machines since 1987 and taught courses on Astronautic Propulsion, Construction of aircraft engines and motor vehicle technology. Since 1997 he has been Professor of Applied Stress Analysis II at the Master of Science courses of the University of Michigan which are held at the Politecnico di Torino. His research activity has been focused on those subjects of Applied Mechanics more linked with the construction of machines, and particularly on static and dynamic structural analysis, dynamics of rotating machinery and of controlled systems, magnetic bearings. He is one of the founders of the Interdepartimental Mechatronics Laboratory of Politecnico di Torino, in which he works in the development of magnetic bearings and walking robots and components for spacecraft. Since 2012 he has chaired of study group SG 3.16 of the International Academy of Astronautics addressing a possible Mars mission's exploration, goals, requirements and technologies. Giancarlo Genta is author of 24 books, 90 papers, published in Italian, American and English Journals and 263 papers presented to symposia. Two of the books are text books of Motor Vehicle Mechanics, Mechanics of Vibration and Mechanics of Space Robots (published in Italian and English), used in Italian and American Universities. Giancarlo Genta has previously co-authored a well received popular science book on space exploration with Michael Rycroft, published by Cambridge University Press. It received very good reviews, including a very favourable one from A.C. Clarke (see his website www.giancarlogenta.it) and a popular science book on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. He has also written two science fiction novels published in the Science and Fiction series by Springer....

Sommaire:
Dynamics of Linear, Time Invariant, Systems.- Conservative Discrete Vibrating Systems.- Equations in the Time, Frequency, and Laplace Domains.- Damped Discrete Vibrating Systems.- Free Vibration of Conservative Systems.- Free Vibration of Damped Systems.- Forced Response in the Frequency Domain: Conservative Systems.- Forced Response in the Frequency Domain: Damped Systems.- Response to Nonperiodic Excitation.- Short Account of Random Vibrations.- Reduction of the Number of Degrees of Freedom.- Controlled Linear Systems.- Vibration of Beams.- General Continuous Linear Systems.- Discretization of Continuous Systems.- The Finite Element Method.- Dynamics of Multibody Systems.- Vibrating Systems in a Moving Reference Frame.- Dynamics of Nonlinear and time Variant Systems.- Free Motion of Conservative Nonlinear Systems.- Forced Response of Conservative Nonlinear Systems.- Free Motion of Damped Nonlinear Systems.- Forced Response of Damped Nonlinear Systems.- Time Variant and Autoparametric Systems.- Dynamics of Rotating and Reciprocating Machinery.- Elementary Rotordynamics: The Jeffcott Rotor.- Dynamics of Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Rotors.- Nonisotropic Rotating Machines.- Nonlinear Rotors.- Dynamic Problems of Rotating Machines.- Rotor Balancing.- Torsional Vibration of Crankshafts.- Vibration Control in Reciprocating Machines.