This textbook offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of mechanical vibration theory and applications, intended for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of mechanical engineering. The Second Edition adds a new chapter on nonlinear vibrations while retaining and expanding earlier content in linear vibrations, forced, damped, and undamped systems, multi-degree-of-freedom systems…
This classic materials science textbook provides a comprehensive examination of the structure and properties of engineering materials. Henkel and Pense explain the relationships between material composition, microstructure, and mechanical performance. The fifth edition updates the text with expanded sections on crystallography, phase diagrams, diffusion, dislocations, and the mechanical behavio…