From the reviews: "The present book is a very detailed study of this damped system in 22cChapters and an addendum devoted to notes and remarks. The theoretical aspects are very interestingly combined with practical examples for several domains. ... An important aspect is that each chapter contains a large number of exercises, some of them obligatory since they are used later. So, this material can be very useful for a course to students from different special areas." (Mircea Crasmareanu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1232, 2012) "This book is devoted to a mathematical study of damped oscillations described by linear systems of ordinary differential equations. The topic is of vital interest in optimization, control theory and, of course, in the stability of mechanical structures. ... Examples and exercises are integral parts of the text and some of them introduce the reader to research questions." (Piotr Biler, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 h)

• 1 The model.- 2 Simultaneous diagonalisation (Modal damping).- 3 Phase space.- 4 The singular mass case.- 5 "Indefinite metric".- 6 Matrices and indefinite scalar products.- 7 Oblique projections.- 8 J-orthogonal projections.- 9 Spectral properties and reduction of J-Hermitian matrices.- 10 Definite spectra.- 11 General Hermitian matrix pairs.- 12 Spectral decomposition of a general J-Hermitian matrix.- 13 The matrix exponential.- 14 The quadratic eigenvalue problem.- 15 Simple eigenvalue inclusions.- 16 Spectral shift.- 17 Resonances and resolvents.- 18 Well-posedness .- 19 Modal approximation.- 20 Modal approximation and overdampedness.- 21 Passive control.- 22 Perturbing matrix exponential.- 23 Notes and remarks.

From the reviews: "The present book is a very detailed study of this damped system in 22cChapters and an addendum devoted to notes and remarks. The theoretical aspects are very interestingly combined with practical examples for several domains. ... An important aspect is that each chapter contains a large number of exercises, some of them obligatory since they are used later. So, this material can be very useful for a course to students from different special areas." (Mircea Crasmareanu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1232, 2012) "This book is devoted to a mathematical study of damped oscillations described by linear systems of ordinary differential equations. The topic is of vital interest in optimization, control theory and, of course, in the stability of mechanical structures. ... Examples and exercises are integral parts of the text and some of them introduce the reader to research questions." (Piotr Biler, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 h)

• 1 The model.- 2 Simultaneous diagonalisation (Modal damping).- 3 Phase space.- 4 The singular mass case.- 5 "Indefinite metric".- 6 Matrices and indefinite scalar products.- 7 Oblique projections.- 8 J-orthogonal projections.- 9 Spectral properties and reduction of J-Hermitian matrices.- 10 Definite spectra.- 11 General Hermitian matrix pairs.- 12 Spectral decomposition of a general J-Hermitian matrix.- 13 The matrix exponential.- 14 The quadratic eigenvalue problem.- 15 Simple eigenvalue inclusions.- 16 Spectral shift.- 17 Resonances and resolvents.- 18 Well-posedness .- 19 Modal approximation.- 20 Modal approximation and overdampedness.- 21 Passive control.- 22 Perturbing matrix exponential.- 23 Notes and remarks.

From the reviews: "The present book is a very detailed study of this damped system in 22cChapters and an addendum devoted to notes and remarks. The theoretical aspects are very interestingly combined with practical examples for several domains. ... An important aspect is that each chapter contains a large number of exercises, some of them obligatory since they are used later. So, this material can be very useful for a course to students from different special areas." (Mircea Crasmareanu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1232, 2012) "This book is devoted to a mathematical study of damped oscillations described by linear systems of ordinary differential equations. The topic is of vital interest in optimization, control theory and, of course, in the stability of mechanical structures. ... Examples and exercises are integral parts of the text and some of them introduce the reader to research questions." (Piotr Biler, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 h)

• 1 The model.- 2 Simultaneous diagonalisation (Modal damping).- 3 Phase space.- 4 The singular mass case.- 5 "Indefinite metric".- 6 Matrices and indefinite scalar products.- 7 Oblique projections.- 8 J-orthogonal projections.- 9 Spectral properties and reduction of J-Hermitian matrices.- 10 Definite spectra.- 11 General Hermitian matrix pairs.- 12 Spectral decomposition of a general J-Hermitian matrix.- 13 The matrix exponential.- 14 The quadratic eigenvalue problem.- 15 Simple eigenvalue inclusions.- 16 Spectral shift.- 17 Resonances and resolvents.- 18 Well-posedness .- 19 Modal approximation.- 20 Modal approximation and overdampedness.- 21 Passive control.- 22 Perturbing matrix exponential.- 23 Notes and remarks.