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Dynamics of Structures (Texts on Computational Mechanics)

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This is not only and excellent technical book, with an excellent in crescendo structure for single introdutions at all level of oscillation dynanmics, going to explain step by step the construction of undamped structural models and the concept of natural vibration, to free and forced vibration with and without damping forces, incluiding an excelllent introduction to random vibration, with the important consideration of modal damping, always fron single degree or freedom system to multy-degree of fredom systems. The second and more involved in nonlinear structural dynamics and their integration methods, goes from simple analitical to more power numerical algrorithms with an excelent previous development of the material to finally abord all diferent modelling and solvers arsenal from FEM to alternative methods applied to a serie of diferent engineeering problems, all started with a simple one degree of fredom duffing well now equation and its analitical and numerical computer solution to solver methods, like Newmark one, to applied practically to diferent dynamical problems all in engineering context.The book is excellent after an introduction course in linear vibration, structural analysys or numerical methods, it is full of graphics outputs, clears and very well selected, from advance undergraduate, to graduate and reserchers who want a fresh write book, with a complet threatment of the computational mechanics, very dificult to find in only one volume.Also belonging to a excelent serie with advanced topics that perfectly complement this book. I recomended this book for its easy lecture and material comprension, to first time oscillation and vibration study to complete domain of classical and non classical advanced material not easy to find in only one book.Its prepare to jump to specialized engineering problems like aeroelasticity and chaotic dynamics.Very usefull for classroom and home study. CAAMEAL@LANDER.ES