Mechanical & Industrial Engrg 641 - Adv Vibrations

Vibration of discrete systems with many degrees of freedom, normal modes and frequencies, approximate methods. Introduction to nonlinear vibrations. Nonlin-earities in inertia, damping, restoring forces, etc. Singular points and stability, including approximate methods of solution. Liapunov's method. Prerequisite: M&I-Eng 640 or 385. Mr. Poli