Principles and Techniques of Vibrations

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Summary: Probably the best vibration textbook ever written.
Review: Starting from SDOF discrete vibration analysis, MDOF, to distributed parameter system analysis, this book covers all important aspects in vibration analysis. In this book you can find most of the vibration analysis techniques necessary to understand the publications in this area.

Only problem is the treatment of Rayleigh quotient. This book shows the Rayleigh quotient and its properties only for discrete systems but not for continuous systems.

If this book reorganizes the topics in conservative systems versus nonconservative systems rather than discrete systems versus continuous systems, and this book is written in more general manner, it will be even more appreciated.

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Summary: The most comprehensive graduate level vibration's book
Review: starting with linear systems and dynamics, this book covers every single topic in the theory of vibrations. chapter 4 has a fantastic discussion of lyapunov stability.