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The first edition of Sound and Structural Vibration
was written in the early 1980s.
Since then, two major developments have taken
place in the field of vibro-acoustics.
Powerful computational methods and procedures for
the numerical analysis of structural vibration, acoustical fields and acoustical
interactions between fluids and structures have been developed and these are now
universally employed by researchers, consultants and industrial organizations.
Advances in signal processing systems and
algorithms, in transducers, and in structural materials and forms of
construction, have facilitated the development of practical means of applying
active and adaptive control systems to structures for the purposes of reducing
or modifying structural vibration and the associated sound radiation and
transmission.
In this greatly expanded and extensively revised
edition, the authors have retained most of the analytically based material that
forms the pedagogical content of the first edition, and have expanded it to
present the theoretical foundations of modern numerical analysis.
Application of the latter is illustrated by
examples that have been chosen to complement the analytical approaches to
solving fairly simple problems of sound radiation, transmission and
fluid-structural coupling that are presented in the first edition.
The number of examples of experimental data that
relate to the theoretical content, and illustrate important features of vibro-acoustic
interaction, has been augmented by the inclusion of a selection from the vast
amount of material published during the past twenty five years.
The final chapter on the active control of sound
and vibration has no precursor in the first edition.
Audience
For undergraduates, postgraduates and those working in sound and vibration
studies
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