Structural Vibration: Exact Solutions for Strings, Membranes, Beams, Rings, Arches, and Plates offers an introduction to structural vibration and highlights the importance of the natural frequencies in design. It focuses on free vibrations for analysis and design of structures and machines, and it presents the exact vibration solutions for strings, membranes, beams, rings, arches, and plates. It explains the intrinsic, fundamental, and unexpected features of solutions in terms of ...

The study of buckling loads, which often hinges on numerical methods, is key in designing structural elements. But the need for analytical solutions in addition to numerical methods is what drove the creation of Exact Solutions for Buckling of Structural Members. It allows readers to assess the reliability and accuracy of solutions obtained by nume