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Also known as mechanical vibration

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Vibration is the rapid back-and-forth movement of objects or materials, like the surface of a drum oscillating or a car's suspension responding to bumps in the road. Understanding and controlling vibrations matters because engineers in fields like automotive and acoustics design systems to manage unwanted vibrations and improve how machines and vehicles perform.

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21 sections
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  • Types
  • Isolation
  • Testing
  • Analysis
  • Free vibration without damping
  • What causes the system to vibrate: from conservation of energy point of view
  • Free vibration with damping
  • Damped and undamped natural frequencies
  • Forced vibration with damping
  • Resonance causes
  • Applying "complex" forces to the mass–spring–damper model
  • Frequency response model
  • Multiple degrees of freedom systems and mode shapes
  • Eigenvalue problem
  • Illustration of a multiple DOF problem
  • Multiple DOF problem converted to a single DOF problem
  • Rigid-body mode
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|One of the possible modes of Vibrations of a circular drum|vibration of a circular drum (see other modes) thumb|upright|Car suspension: Designing vibration control is undertaken as part of Acoustical engineering|acoustic, automotive or mechanical [[engineering.]]

In mechanics, vibration () is oscillatory motion about an equilibrium point. Vibration may be deterministic if the oscillations can be characterised precisely (e.g. the periodic motion of a pendulum), or random if the oscillations can only be analysed statistically (e.g. the movement of a tire on a gravel road).

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