This book fills a unique position in the literature as a dedicated mechanical shock analysis
book. Because shock events can be extremely damaging mechanical shock is an important topic
for engineers to understand. This book provides the reader with the tools needed to
quantitatively describe shock environments and their damage potential on aerospace civil
naval and mechanical systems. The authors include the relevant history of how shock testing and
analysis came to its current state and a discussion of the different types of shock
environments typically experienced by systems. Development of single-degree-of-freedom theory
and the theory of the shock response spectra are covered consistent with treatment of shock
spectra theory in the literature. What is unique is the expansion to other types of spectra
including less common types of shock spectra and energy spectra methods using fundamental
principles of structural dynamics. In addition non-spectral methods are discussed with their
applications. Non-spectral methods are almost completely absent from the current books on
mechanical shock. Multi-degree-of-freedom shock spectra and multi-degree-of-freedom testing are
discussed and the theory is developed. Addressing an emerging field for laboratory shock
testing the authors bring together information currently available only in journals and
conference publications. The volume is ideal for engineers structural designers and
structural materials fabricators needing a foundation to practically analyze shock environments
and understand their role in structural design.
