Prentice-Hall international series in civil engineering and engineering mechanics
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Single-degree-of-freedom systems -- Equations of motion, problemstatement, and solution methods -- Free vibration -- Response to harmonic and periodic excitations -- Numerical evaluation of dynamic response -- Earthquake response of linear systems -- Earthquake response of inelastic systems -- Generalized single-degree-of-freedom systems -- Multi-degree-of-freedom systems -- Equaitons of motion, problem statement, and solution methods -- Free vibration -- Damping in structures -- Dynamic analysis and response of linear systems -- Earthquake analysis of linear systems -- Reduction of degrees of freedom -- Numerical evaluation of dynamic response -- Systems with distributed mass and elasticity -- Introduction to the finite element method -- Earthquake response and design of multistory buildings -- Earthquake response of linearly elastic buildings -- Earthquake analysis response of inelastic buildings -- Earthquake dynamics of base-isolated buildings -- Structural dynamics in building codes -- Structural dynamics in building evaluation guidelines.