Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery: Proceedings of VETOMAC X 2014, held at the University of Manchester, UK, September 9-11, 2014: 23 (Mechanisms and Machine Science) - Tapa dura

<P>THE VETOMAC-X CONFERENCE COVERED A HOLISTIC PLETHORA OF RELEVANT TOPICS IN VIBRATION AND ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING CONDITION MONITORING, MACHINERY AND STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, ROTOR DYNAMICS, EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES, FINITE ELEMENT MODEL UPDATING, INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES, VIBRATION CONTROL AND ENERGY HARVESTING, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING.</P><P>THESE PROCEEDINGS CONTAIN NOT ONLY ALL OF THE NEARLY ONE-HUNDRED PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS FROM AUTHORS REPRESENTING MORE THAN TWENTY COUNTRIES, BUT ALSO INCLUDE SIX INVITED LECTURES FROM RENOWNED EXPERTS: PROFESSOR K. GUPTA, MR W. HAHN, PROFESSOR A.W. LEES, PROFESSOR JOHN MOTTERSHEAD, PROFESSOR J.S. RAO, AND DR P. RUSSHARD.</P><P>THIS WORK IS OF INTEREST TO RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS ALIKE, AND IS AN ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR MOST OF LIBRARIES OF HIGHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTES.</P>