The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2001 · 94 citations · 0 references
EngineeringMechanical EngineeringPhysicsApplied MechanicsStructural DynamicsVibrationElasticity TheoryPlate TheoryShell TheoryStructural VibrationVariational FormulationVibration AnalysisDynamic Response Of Shell StructuresElastic Plate TheoryElastic ShellsFlexural DeformationLagrangian FormulationRod VibrationShell VibrationsSmall-amplitude Vibration
Dynamics of shells, plates, and rods is an engineering problem, which involves complicated mathematics due to the fourth-order partial differential equations that describe flexural vibrations. As a result there are two types of books related to this problem: one is written by engineers or physicists and the other by mathematicians. The reviewed book is clearly written by a mathematician, and, in my view, is written for mathematicians who specialize in mechanics and structural dynamics.