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The author gives an accurate and extensive explanation of modern procedures for vibration simulation of linear dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom, and of finite element procedures for different structures. The book has three main purposes. The first purpose is to collect in one document various methods of constructing and representing dynamic mechanical models. The second purpose is to help the reader to develop a strong understanding of modal analysis, where the total response of a system can be constructed by combinations of the individual modes of vibration. The third purpose is to show how to take the results of large dynamic finite element models and build small MATLAB state space dynamic mechanical models for use in mechanical or servo/mechanical system models. A problems in the book are investigated in details, with particular attention to the study and transformation of various matrices playing a fundamental role in the presentation of the material. Chapters 1 to 16 contain background theoretical material, closed-form solutions to example problems, and MATLAB and/or ANSYS codes for solving the problems. All closed-form solutions are shown in their entirety. Chapter 17 uses an ANSYS mode of a single-stage SISO disk drive actuator/suspension system to illustrate the use of DC or peak gains of individual modes to rank modes for elimination when creating a low-order state space MATLAB model. Chapter 18 introduces balanced reduction, another method of ranking modes for elimination, and uses it to construct a reduced variant of the SISO disk drive actuator/suspension model from chapter 17. In chapter 19 a complete ANSYS/MATLAB analysis of a two-stage MIMO actuator/suspension system is carried out (with balanced reduction used to construct a low-order model). Appendix 1 lists the names of all MATLAB and ANSYS codes used in the book (it also contains an instruction for downloading MATLAB and ANSYS files from the Math Works FTP site as well as from the author's Web site, www.hatchon.com). Appendix 2 presents a short introduction to Laplace transforms.