Vibration Texts: Best Books for Undergrads

[skaboy607]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a text for Vibration. My university recommends Mechanical Vibrations by S.S Rao but it has received bad reviews. I am an undergraduate in my second year and prefer the sound of a book that makes this less complicated...?

Thanks

Will

 

[stewartcs]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a text for Vibration. My university recommends Mechanical Vibrations by S.S Rao but it has received bad reviews. I am an undergraduate in my second year and prefer the sound of a book that makes this less complicated...?

Thanks

Will

Anything by Timoshenko is great.

CS

 

[Mapes]

Tongue's Principles of Vibration is extremely straightforward. It's unlike any other vibrations text I've ever read; at one point, it came shrinkwrapped with a spring that you could attach to a coffee cup (or any weight) to do simple experiments on your own. I used it sophomore year in mechanical engineering.

EDIT: Good Lord, it's only $5 used on Amazon! You can't beat that.

 

[schroder]

The Practical Vibration Primer by Charles Jackson, is as the name implies, a primer with much immediately useful information and a good supplement to a ME course.

 

[Rybose]

I used Rao as an undergrad. I wasn't very helpful.

Try "Mechanical Vibrations" - Hartog (1985)

It's a very old book, but the explanations about the fundamentals are the best I've read.

It's available for around $12 on amazon, and it's free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/mechanicalvibrat031556mbp