Download or read book The Mechanics of Vibration written by Richard Evelyn Donohue Bishop and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1960 book aims primarily to provide an insight into the vibration characteristics of a machine or structure rather than to present a recipe for formal calculations. Classical theory is developed by starting from the concept of steady forced motion and then introducing free motion as a limiting case.