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This new book on an old subject uses a new approach to analyse and explain the vibration characteristic of machines or structures. Confined exclusively to linear vibration, the book gives a thorough treatment of the fundamentals of forced and free vibrations of both damped and undamped systems (lumped parameter systems, strings, shafts and beams). The concept of ‘receptance’ (dynamic flexibility) is introduced at the start, and is used throughout the book to study the vibration properties of various systems. The utility and versatility of receptance techniques quickly become apparent, and the book gives a powerful exposition of this relatively new method. The authors' style in general has been one of extreme thoroughness and vigour. Their intention, expressed on the flyleaf, has been ‘to give insight into vibration rather than to present recipes for formal calculation’, and this has been achieved by the thorough treatment of an arbitrary selection of subject matter from the wide field of engineering vibration. The following synopsis shows the authors' choice: