Edward B. Magrab is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has extensive experience in analytical and experimental analysis of vibrations and acoustics, served as an engineering consultant to numerous companies, and authored and co-authored books on vibrations, environmental noise control, instrumentation, integrated product design, advanced engineering mathematics, statistics, MATLAB^®, and Mathematica^®. He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Spring-Mass Systems and Inerters.- Chapter 3. Thin Beams: Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes.- Chapter 4. Thin Beams: Applications.- Chapter 5. Timoshenko Beams.- Chapter 6. Thin Plates.- Chapter 7. Mindlin-Reissner Plates.- Chapter 8. Cylindrical Shells.

This book presents new topics such as Inerters in spring-mass models and attached to beams; fluid loading on beams, plates, and shells; bio-inspired vibration isolation and absorption; coupled bending and torsion of beams; beams with functionally graded materials; as well as a new chapter on the Mindlin/Timoshenko plate theory: rectangular and circular. New applications and enhancements to the previous edition include moving mass on beams; thin beams with attached pendulum; transient response of beams with in-span attachments; and shells to model blood flow in arteries.