"In this book titled Mechanical Wave Vibrations, vibrations in solid structures are viewed as waves that propagate along uniform waveguides, and are reflected and transmitted incident upon discontinuities similar to light and sound waves. The wave vibration description is particularly useful for structures consisting of onedimensional structural elements where a finite number of waves with given directions of propagation exist. In conventional textbooks on mechanical vibrations vibration problems in distributed structures are solved as boundary value problems. The coverage is typically limited to the analysis of a single type of vibration in a simple beam element due to the complexity in boundaries imposed by builtup structures."-- Provided by publisher.