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Dick Stern
Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania 16804
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Book Title: Springer Handbook of Acoustics Editor: Thomas D. Rossing
Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0387304460 Pages: Over 1100 plus a CD
Chapters: 28
Binding: Hard Cover Publication Date: Available August 2007
The Springer Handbook of Acoustics, edited by Thomas Rossing (Editor
of ECHOES), is one of the newest handbooks in the Springer Handbook series. It covers most of the “hottest” fields in acoustics and is written by an international team of distin- guished acousticians from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. Chapters, which vary in length from 12 to 136 pages, describe some of the latest research in acoustics along with in-depth reviews of both fundamental theory and applications. Most of the authors are Fellows or members of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). The Handbook is organized into 9 parts: Propagation of Sound; Physical and Nonlinear Acoustics; Architectural Acoustics; Hearing and Signal Processing; Music, Speech and Electroacoustics; Biological and Medical Acoustics; Structural Acoustics and Noise; Acoustical Measurements.
Book Title: Vibration in Continuous Media
Author: Jean-Louis Guyader Publisher: iste (www.iste.co.uk) ISBN: 978.1 905209 27 9
Pages: 448
Chapters: 12
Binding: Hard Cover Publication Date: September 2006
This book is concerned with vibration in continuous elastic solid media and discuss- es both the physical phenome- na and prediction methods. In
addition, it offers a synthesis of reference results on vibration in beams and plates.
Three aspects are developed in this book: modeling, a description of the phenomena and computation methods. A particular effort has been made to provide a clear under- standing of the limits associated with each modeling approach. Examples of applications are used throughout the book to provide a better understanding of the material pre- sented.
Jean-Louis Guyader is Professor of Vibration and Acoustics within the Mechanical Engineering Department at INSA, Lyon, France and Director of the Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory. His research covers the acoustic radia- tion of structures in light or heavy fluids and the energy propagation in vibrating structures and acoustic media.
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