Vibration and Damping in Distributed Systems (Hardcover)

Volume 1, Vibration, Wave Propagation and Damping in one Space Dimension; Functional Analysis' Distributions, Sobolev Spaces and Boundary Value Problems; Strongly Continuous Semigroups of Evolution; Asyptotic Stability and Exponential Decay of Energy; The Method of Energy Identities, Holomorphic Semigroups Corresponding to Structures with Strong Damping. Volume 2, WKB and Wave Methods, Visualization and Experimentation; The WKB Method for Eigenvalue Problems I, II; Miscellaneous Methods; Visualization; Remarks on experimental Determination of Modal Damping Rates in Elastic Beams.