Review of the hardback: 'Writing a monograph intended for engineers on advanced applications of stochastic modelling is a difficult challenge: the subject is extremely mathematical and one runs the risk of either writing for a very small target audience of experts or one has to include entire chapters of background material. Professor Wei-Chau Xie has managed to strike a difficult balance between these two extremes.' Journal of Sound and Vibration

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Dynamic Stability of Structures under Deterministic Loadings: 2. Linear differential equations with periodic coefficients; 3. Approximate methods; 4. Nonlinear systems under periodic excitations; Part II. Dynamic Stability of Structures under Stochastic Loadings: 5. Random processes and stochastic differential equations; 6. Almost-sure stability of systems under ergodic excitations; 7. Moment stability of stochastic systems; 8. Lyapunov exponents; 9. Moment Lyapunov exponents; Appendix A. Maple programs; Bibliography.

Review of the hardback: 'Writing a monograph intended for engineers on advanced applications of stochastic modelling is a difficult challenge: the subject is extremely mathematical and one runs the risk of either writing for a very small target audience of experts or one has to include entire chapters of background material. Professor Wei-Chau Xie has managed to strike a difficult balance between these two extremes.' Journal of Sound and Vibration

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Dynamic Stability of Structures under Deterministic Loadings: 2. Linear differential equations with periodic coefficients; 3. Approximate methods; 4. Nonlinear systems under periodic excitations; Part II. Dynamic Stability of Structures under Stochastic Loadings: 5. Random processes and stochastic differential equations; 6. Almost-sure stability of systems under ergodic excitations; 7. Moment stability of stochastic systems; 8. Lyapunov exponents; 9. Moment Lyapunov exponents; Appendix A. Maple programs; Bibliography.

Review of the hardback: 'Writing a monograph intended for engineers on advanced applications of stochastic modelling is a difficult challenge: the subject is extremely mathematical and one runs the risk of either writing for a very small target audience of experts or one has to include entire chapters of background material. Professor Wei-Chau Xie has managed to strike a difficult balance between these two extremes.' Journal of Sound and Vibration

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Dynamic Stability of Structures under Deterministic Loadings: 2. Linear differential equations with periodic coefficients; 3. Approximate methods; 4. Nonlinear systems under periodic excitations; Part II. Dynamic Stability of Structures under Stochastic Loadings: 5. Random processes and stochastic differential equations; 6. Almost-sure stability of systems under ergodic excitations; 7. Moment stability of stochastic systems; 8. Lyapunov exponents; 9. Moment Lyapunov exponents; Appendix A. Maple programs; Bibliography.