Structural Dynamics

The basic structure of the five previous editions is still maintained in this Sixth Edition. After the release of the Fifth Edition in 2004, academic and industrial environments have been changed, although the fundamentals have not changed over 15 years. When the author started to teach structural dynamics since 2011, the most challenging part as an instructor has been to present how students can solve and simulate the structural dynamics using the computer program. There is a limited information available to show how we can solve structural dynamics in finite element method–based commercial software. When understanding the background of undergraduate and graduate students who are first exposed to structural dynamics, the fundamentals are mainly considered as core content. The author believes that a line-by-line computer language is a helpful learning and teaching tool for its application of fundamentals. This is the major motivation of the revision of this textbook.