Mechanical Vibrations & Structural Dynamics

Critical speed in rotating machinery is the shaft rotational speed at which the ...

Damped systems are dynamical systems in which energy is dissipated (commonly via...

Dampers (viscous damping elements) provide force proportional to relative veloci...

Forced vibration studies the steady-state and transient response of dynamical sy...

Free vibration is the motion of a mechanical system after it is given an initial...

Frequency response describes how a dynamic system (typically modeled as a linear...

Introduction to Vibration: Vibration is oscillatory motion about an equilibrium ...

Modal analysis decomposes the dynamic response of a linear multi-degree-of-freed...

Natural frequency is the frequency at which a mechanical system vibrates freely ...

Resonance is the condition in which a vibrating system is driven at a frequency ...

Rotating systems (rotors) are mechanical assemblies that spin about an axis and ...

Multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) vibration systems have multiple independent coord...

Undamped single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems are linear mechanical systems w...

Vibration isolation is the use of mounts, springs, dampers or combinations there...

Vibration studies motion about an equilibrium position when a system is displace...