Isospectral Vibrating Systems

Dr. Ranjan Ganguli is a professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He received his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and his B.Tech. degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He has worked at Pratt & Whitney on engine gas path diagnostics and, during his academic career at IISc, has conducted sponsored research projects for companies such as Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Honeywell, and HAL. He has authored or coauthored three books, published more than 140 papers in refereed journals, and presented more than 80 papers at conferences. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is an associate editor of the AIAA Journal and the Journal of the American Helicopter Society.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Spring-Mass Systems. 2. Discrete Models of Beams. 3. Beams with Tip-Force Discrete Models. 4. Gravity Loaded Beams-Discrete Models. 5. Rotating-Discrete Models. 6. Isospectral Beams-Electromagnetism Optimization. 7. Isospectral Beams-Closed Form Solutions. 8. Isospectral Systems for Testing. 9. Beams with Shared Eigenpairs. 10. Isospectral Rayleigh Beams. References. Index.