Nonlinear Random Vibration

Dr. To joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska in 1996. Prior to joining UNL, he was a professor at the University of Western Ontario and an associate professor at the University of Calgary. He was a Reseach Fellow of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada from 1982-1992, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a founder Fellow of the Institution of Diagnostics Engineers, U.K. He served as chair of the ASME Finite Element Techniques and Computational Technologies Technical Committee. Dr. To currently serves as the department graduate chair.

In summary, the technical material in Prof. To’s 2012 second edition of Nonlinear Random Vibration: Analytical Techniques and Applications is well presented, of sufficient depth, detail, and quality, and supported by a good number of solved example problems.Robert M. KochNaval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, USAIn: Noise Control Engr. J. 61 (2), March-April 2013, pp 251-252

• Introduction. Markovian and Non-Markovian Solutions of Stochastic Nonlinear Differential Equations. Exact Solution of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov Equation. Methods of Statistical Linearization. Statistical Nonlinearization Techniques. Methods of Stochastic Averaging. Truncated Hierarchy and other Techniques.