Structural dynamics is a complex and increasingly important field of civil/structural engineering. The aim of this concise book is to demonstrate to practising engineers and advanced students that the dynamic response of structural systems can be understood without advanced techniques of analysis and impenetrable detail. Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of tables; 1 Physical concepts; 1.1 Conservation of energy and Newton's second law; 1.2 Free vibrations; 1.3 Response to a suddenly applied load; 1.4 Concluding remarks; Problems; 2 Theory of the single-degree-of-freedom oscillator; 2.1 Free vibrations; 2.1.1 The undamped system; 2.1.2 The damped system; 2.2 Response to simple forcing functions; 2.2.1 Suddenly applied load of constant magnitude and infinite duration; 2.2.2 Suddenly applied load of constant magnitude but finite duration.

Max H Irvine

Structural Dynamics for the Practising Engineer