Nonlinear Random Vibration: Analytical Techniques and Applications (Advances in Engineering Series) - Hardcover

In summary, the technical material in Prof. To’s 2012 second edition of Nonlinear Random Vibration: Analytical Techniques and Applications is well presented, of sufficient depth, detail, and quality, and supported by a good number of solved example problems.

Robert M. Koch
Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, USA
In: Noise Control Engr. J. 61 (2), March-April 2013, pp 251-252

This second edition of the book, Nonlinear Random Vibration: Analytical Techniques and Applications, expands on the original edition with additional detailed steps in various places in the text. It is a first systematic presentation on the subject. Its features include:
· a concise treatment of Markovian and non- Markovian solutions of nonlinear stochastic differential equations,
· exact solutions of Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations,
· methods of statistical linearization,
· statistical nonlinearization techniques,
· methods of stochastic averaging,
· truncated hierarchy techniques, and
· an appendix on probability theory.

A special feature is its incorporation of detailed steps in many examples of engineering applications.

Targeted audience: Graduates, research scientists and engineers in mechanical, aerospace, civil and environmental (earthquake, wind and transportation), automobile, naval, architectural, and mining engineering.