Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Vibrations of Massless Shafts with Rigid Disks; Vibrations of a Continuous Rotor; Vibrations of an Asymmetrical Shaft and an Asymmetrical Rotor; Nonlinear Vibrations; Self-Excited Vibrations Due to Internal Damping; Nonstationary Vibrations During Passage Through Critical Speeds; Vibrations Due to Mechanical Elements; Flow-Induced Vibrations; Finite Element Method; Transfer Matrix Method; Measurement and Signal Processing; Appendix A: Moment of Inertia and Equations of Motion; Appendix B: Stability Above the Major Critical Speed; Appendix C: Deriviation of Equations of Motion of a 4DOF Rotor System by Lagrange's Equations; Appendix D: Asymmetrical Shaft and Asymmetrical Rotor with Four Degrees of Freedom; Appendix E: Transformation of Equations of Motion to Normal Coordinates: 4DOF Rotor System; Appendix F: Routh-Hurwitz Criteria for Complex Expression; Appendix G: FFT Program; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews

"...carefully written...a welcome addition to current reference texts now available in the area of rotordynamics." (Applied Mechanics Review, Vol. 55, No. 3, May 2002)