Resources
What I read and recommend
A short, opinionated list. Books for depth, standards for the day job, and explainers that made something click.
Piping vibration (FIV / AIV)
- Energy Institute: Guidelines for the avoidance of vibration induced fatigue failure in process pipework The industry's go-to screening method for FIV, AIV, pulsation and small-bore connections. If you assess piping vibration, you'll live in this.
- R. D. Blevins: Flow-Induced Vibration The classic text on vortex shedding, galloping and flow-excited structures. Heavy, but it's where the physics behind the screening rules lives.
Machinery diagnostics & condition monitoring
- R. B. Randall: Vibration-based Condition Monitoring The best single book on the signal processing behind machine diagnostics: envelope analysis, cepstrum, order tracking, bearing and gear faults.
- ISO 20816-3 Evaluation zones for vibration of industrial machines, measured on non-rotating parts. The current replacement for ISO 10816-3.
- ISO 18436-2 The competence requirements behind vibration analyst certification (Categories I–IV). A useful map of what a complete analyst should know.
Vibration theory
- J. P. Den Hartog: Mechanical Vibrations Old, cheap and still one of the clearest books on the subject. Den Hartog explains with physical intuition first and maths second.
- S. S. Rao: Mechanical Vibrations The standard university textbook: thorough, well-structured, lots of worked examples.
Signal processing, visually
- 3Blue1Brown: But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction The "winding a signal around a circle" intuition. The best 20 minutes you can spend on the Fourier transform.
- Jack Schaedler: Seeing circles, sines and signals An interactive primer on sampling, aliasing and the DFT. A big inspiration for the explainers on this site.
- Bartosz Ciechanowski Not about vibration, but the gold standard for teaching physical systems with interactive figures.
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