Introduction to Dynamics and Control of Flexible Structures

Abstract

""Specialization for Mechanical Second Order Systems"". Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Some Biased Historical Notes -- 1.2 Scope and Organization -- 2 Mathematical Background: Matrix Analysis and Computation -- 2.1 Introduction and Basic Notions -- Simultaneous Linear Algebraic Equations -- Numerical Methods to Solve the Least Square Problem -- Partitioned Matrix Inversion Formulas and the Matrix Inversion Lemma -- 2.2 Matrix Decompositions -- Spectral Decomposition -- Singular Value Decomposition -- Cholesky Decomposition