Alphose Zingoni is professor of structural engineering and mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town. He holds an M.Sc in structural engineering and a Ph.D in shell structures, both earned at Imperial College London. Dr. Zingoni has research interests encompassing shell structures, space structures, vibration analysis, and applications of group theory to problems in computational structural mechanics. He has written numerous scientific papers on these topics, which have been published in leading international journals and presented at various international conferences worldwide.
This is a fabulous book, written by a true expert in the field. It is rigorous, but accessible, and it helps to simplify some of the most important but complex dynamics phenomena through an innovative link to the mathematics of group theory. This is a book I must have on my book shelf. -Tim Ibell, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, Bath, UK