Vibration

The book is based on the series of Christmas lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, London, in 1962 to a predominantly young audience.

Vibration is a subject of great importance in many branches of mechanical engineering and the book is full of practical examples: these range from the swaying of overhead power lines and the oscillations of bridges, to flutter in aircraft and crack detection in metal forgings.

The general principles of these often complex processes are brought out in a completely non-mathematical way, largely by description and illustrations of the many experiments performed during the lectures.

This introductory account of the mechanical engineer’s approach to one aspect of his work will be useful to students beginning a study of Applied Mechanics and to anyone wanting to learn something of the sort of problems which professional engineers are called on to tackle.