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Book Review: Vibration Testing, Theory and Practice

The document reviews a book about vibration testing theory and practice. It provides an overview of the topics and scope covered in the book, including signals, single degree of freedom systems, various exciters and transducers, and test problems. The review notes the book's emphasis on frequency response tests using piezoelectric sensors and hydraulic or electrodynamic exciters.

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Book Review: Vibration Testing, Theory and Practice

The document reviews a book about vibration testing theory and practice. It provides an overview of the topics and scope covered in the book, including signals, single degree of freedom systems, various exciters and transducers, and test problems. The review notes the book's emphasis on frequency response tests using piezoelectric sensors and hydraulic or electrodynamic exciters.

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Applied Acoustics, Vol. 53, NO. 1-3, p.

227, 1998
0 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
Printed in Great Britain
PII: SOOO3-682X(97)00023-6 0003-682X/98 $19.00 + 0.00
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Book Review

Vibration Testing, Theory and Practice

By K. G. McConnell
John Wiley & Son, New York, 1995

Vibration Testing, Theory and Practice is a welcome arrival, representing a


comprehensive text in low to mid frequency mechanical vibration measure-
ment. The book seems to be aimed at engineers working in the traditional
engineering test houses considering vibration problems from a few hertz to
the top of the modal region, of the order of 1 kHz. The basics of signals and
the single degree of freedom system are established, and then various types of
vibration exciters, transducers, and test types are well covered. The problems
arising in the tests are dealt with in detail, including exciter-structure inter-
action, calibration and noise problems.
Most of the sections are self-contained, which is useful for the casual user.
The emphasis is very much on frequency response tests using piezoelectric
sensors and hydraulic or electrodynamic exciters. If this is the required
scope, as is likely to be the case for most readers, the book is excellent and
thorough.
As it is unfair to criticise a book for the things it does not cover I will
merely mention that there are other sensors that are useful for measuring
quantities other than translational and rotational acceleration. These quan-
tities are low frequency acceleration to DC, displacement, shaft displace-
ment, strain, and strain on rotating systems. Other means of actuation, such
as piezoelectricity or magnostriction, are also increasingly utilised in the high
frequency region. If you can manage to abstain from these more exotic
options, you will find this book rigorous and accessible with its combination
of theory and practical examples.

Roger Pinnington

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