Vibration Monitoring, Testing, and Instrumentation

Controlling a system's vibrational behavior, whether for reducing harmful vibrations or for enhancing useful types, is critical to ensure safe and economical operation as well as longer structural and equipment lifetimes. A related issue is the effect of vibration on humans and their environment. Achieving control of vibration requires thorough understanding of system behavior, and Vibration Monitoring, Testing, and Instrumentation provides a convenient, thorough, and up-to-date source of tools, techniques, and data for instrumenting, experimenting, monitoring, measuring, and analyzing vibration in a variety of mechanical and structural systems and environments.

Drawn from the immensely popular Vibration and Shock Handbook, each expertly crafted chapter of this book includes convenient summary windows, tables, graphs, and lists to provide ready access to the important concepts and results. The authors give equal emphasis to the theoretical and practical aspects, supplying methodologies for analyzing shock, vibration, and seismic behavior. They thoroughly review instrumentation and testing methods such as exciters, sensors, and LabVIEW® tools for virtual instrumentation as well as signal acquisition, conditioning, and recording. Illustrative examples and case studies accompany a wide array of industrial and experimental techniques, analytical formulations, and design approaches. The book also includes a chapter on human response to vibration.

Vibration Monitoring, Testing, and Instrumentation supplies a thorough understanding of the concepts, tools, instruments, and techniques you need to know before the design process begins.

• Provides a Single, unique source of information for measuring and testing vibration in structures and systems

• Summarizes important information into convenient windows, tables, graph, lists for easy reference

• Discusses practical and industrial instruments for sensing, conditioning, actuation, recording, and analysis of vibrations

• Employs examples to demonstrate applications of the concepts and to give ample opportunity for practice

• Includes practical guidance on software tools such as MATLAB and LabVIEW

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors

Chapter 1 : Vibration Instrumentation
Chapter 2 : Signal Conditioning and Modification
Chapter 3 : Vibration Testing
Chapter 4 : Experimental Modal Analysis
Chapter 5 : Mechanical Shock
Chapter 6 : Machine Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnostics
Chapter 7 : Vibration-Based Tool Condition Monitoring Systems
Chapter 8 : Fault Diagnosis of Helicopter Gearboxes
Chapter 9 : Vibration Suppression and Monitoring in Precision Motion Systems
Chapter 10 : Vibration and Shock Problems of Civil Engineering Structures
Chapter 11 : Seismic Base Isolation and Vibration Control
Chapter 12 : Seismic Random Vibration of Long-Span Structures
Chapter 13 : Seismic Qualification of Equipment
Chapter 14 : Human Response to Vibration

Index