ISBN-13: 9781441923479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 397 str.
Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. Joseph Roux This book is a continuation of my previous book, Dynamics and Control of Structures 44]. The expanded book includes three additional chapters and an additional appendix: Chapter 3, Special Models; Chapter 8, Modal Actuators and Sensors; and Chapter 9, System Identification. Other chapters have been significantly revised and supplemented with new topics, including discrete-time models of structures, limited-time and -frequency grammians and reduction, almo- balanced modal models, simultaneous placement of sensors and actuators, and structural damage detection. The appendices have also been updated and expanded. Appendix A consists of thirteen new Matlab programs. Appendix B is a new addition and includes eleven Matlab programs that solve examples from each chapter. In Appendix C model data are given. Several books on structural dynamics and control have been published. Meirovitch s textbook 108] covers methods of structural dynamics (virtual work, d Alambert s principle, Hamilton s principle, Lagrange s and Hamilton s equations, and modal analysis of structures) and control (pole placement methods, LQG design, and modal control). Ewins s book 33] presents methods of modal testing of structures. Natke s book 111] on structural identification also contains excellent material on structural dynamics. Fuller, Elliot, and Nelson 40] cover problems of structural active control and structural acoustic control."