This book provides engineering students with an understanding of the dynamic response of structures and the analytical tools to determine such responses. This comprehensive text demonstrates how modern theories and solution techniques can be applied to a large variety of practical, real-world problems. As computers play a more significant role in this field, the authors emphasize discrete methods of analysis and numerical solution techniques throughout the text.

C. Allen Ross is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics and Engineering Science at the University of Florida, and is a faculty member at the Graduate Engineering Research Center, Shalimar, Florida. Dr. Ross is a Registered Professional Engineer with the State of Florida and has thirty-eight years of teaching and research experience with the University of Florida. He serves on a number of professional committees and is an Associate Fellow of AIAA.