Engineering Vibration

Analysis with Application to

Control Systems

C. F. Beards BSc, PhD, CEng, MRAeS, MIOA

Consultant in Dynamics, Noise and Vibration
Formerly of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of London

Edward Arnold
A member of the Hodder Headline Group
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Acknowledgements

Some of the problems first appeared in University of London B.Sc. (Eng) Degree
Examinations, set for students of Imperial College, London. The section on random
vibration has been reproduced with permission from the Mechanical Engineers
Reference Book, 12th edn, Butterworth - Heinemann, 1993.