Errata

September 3, 2013
Brandt, A1 . Noise and Vibration Analysis: Signal Analysis and Experimental Procedures , John Wiley
and Sons, 2011

Page Place Correction

54 First line in text Should say: `...and B = 1/(2fs )[1, 1]...'
55 4th line in Section 3.4.3 says: `... should say `...there is a zero at DC...'
there is a pole at DC...'
55 Eq. (3.25) should be
xn −xn−1
yn = ∆t

60 Eq. (3.30) should be

x(t) = X1 ej2πf1 t X2 ej2πf2 t
√
73 Eq. (4.42) Denominator inside integral should be π

79 Eqs. (4.52) and (4.53) Right-hand term after minus and plus signs, respectively, should
be
√
2σA erf−1 (1 − α)

104 Eq. (5.37) should be

fu2 −fl2
ζ= (2fd )2

116 Problem 5.4 The mass is missing in this Problem. Use a mass of m = 1 kg.
116 Problem 5.5 The mass is missing also in this Problem. Use a mass of m = 1
kg.
128 Eq. (6.62) should be
⌈Mr ⌋ {q̈} + ⌈Cr ⌋ {q̇} + ⌈Kr ⌋ {q} = {F ′ (t)}

128 Example 6.3.4 First sentence should start

We continue with the same 2DOF system...
129 Eq. (6.74) should be
√ √
s2 = −ζ2 ω2 + jω2 1 − ζ22 = −0.2 + j20 1 − 0.012

131 p1, line 6 ends with `...pairs of should say `...pairs of eigenvectors.'
eigenvalues.'
131 Eq. (6.88) Should be
T
[Φ] [A] [Φ] = ⌈MA ⌋

131 Eq. (6.89) Should be

T
[Φ] [B] [Φ] = ⌈MB ⌋

1 The author would much appreciate to be notied if you nd an error not in this errata, by email to abra@iti.sdu.dk

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134 2nd bullet point Should say
−1
[H(jω)] = [Z(jω)]

135 Eq. (6.104) Should be

[ ]−1
[H] = [Ψ] s2 ⌈Mr ⌋ + s ⌈Cr ⌋ + ⌈Kr ⌋ [Ψ]T

139 Under Eq. (1.129) it says `..., we should, of course, say `...,we note that'
not that'
141 Eq. (6.131) Should be
∑N ∗
[h(t)] = r=1 [A]r esr t + [A∗ ]r esr t

145 Problem 6.4 On second line should refer to Eq. (6.100)

145 Problem 6.8 In second part, the system damping should be reduced to 1 % for
both modes
152 Line 2 should start: `per meter in [F/m]'
181 bullet list where it says `analog Fourier transform', the word `analog' should
be replaced by `continuous'
185 Fig. 9.4 This gure has a wrong x axis and wrong x axis label. A correct
gure is found at the end of this errata, marked Fig. 9.4. Example
b_DFT_Ex2.m in the ABRAVIBE companion toolbox is changed
accordingly from revision 1.1.
209 Eq. (10.8) Eq. should be
L−1 2
∑ 
P̂xx (k) = 1  x(n)e−j2πkn/N 
L  
n=0

209 Eq. (10.9) Eq. should be

∑
L−1
P̂yx (k) = 1
L y(n)x∗ (n)e−j2πkn/N
n=0

210 Fig. 10.2 The caption should say . . . L2 = 4096 . . .

210 P. 1, L. 1, 4, and 6 where it says 8192 it should say 4096 (3 places) and N should be
replaced by L1 or L2 as on line 1.
[ ]
213 Fig. 10.3 The indicated bias in the gure is the absolute bias, b Ĝxx . Also
see gure at the end of this document
223 End of rst line should say ...`frequencies kfs /Ls are'
225 (10.40) Eq. should be

 N −r C
 R̂ (r), for r = 0, 1, . . . , N − 1
R̂yx (r) = N ∆t yx

 r − N R̂C (r), for r = N, N + 1, . . . , 2N − 1
N ∆t yx
225 Line after Eq. (10.40) should continue: `where R̂yx
C
(r) is . . . '

295 Eq. (13.27) Eq. should be

2
  2
  |Ĝyx |
2

Ĝuu = 1 Ĥ  Ĝxx = Ĝ
xx

359 MATLAB example code, third to

last line Ht=U(:,1:x)*S(1:x,1:x)*V(:,1:x);

379 Line after Eq. (16.15) Should start

Since ∆f = fs /N ...
398 Line after Eq. (16.42) should say
... is found by using ...

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 Corrected gures

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6
Real[X(k)]/N

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

−0.1
−16 −8 0 8 16 24 32
Frequency number, k

Figure 9.4 with corrected x axis.

Gxx(k) ^
^ b[Gxx(k)]
Gxx(k)

f
∆f

Figure 10.3 with corrected bias symbol.