Vibroudarnaya tekhnika i tekhnologii shiroko primenyayutsya v gornom dele, stroitel'stve, energetike, mashinostroenii, kommunal'nom khozyaystve. Praktika ikh sozdaniya i sovershenstvovaniya trebuet primeneniya rezul'tatov nauchnykh issledovaniy v oblasti teorii udara i udarnykh protsessov. V sushchestvuyushchikh uchebnykh kursakh eti teorii izlagayutsya ochen' kratko, i otsutstvuet uchebnaya literatura, obobshchayushchaya nakoplennye k nastoyashchemu vremeni rezul'taty i metody issledovaniy v etom napravlenii. Kniga yavlyaetsya popytkoy v kakoy-to mere vospolnit' etot probel. V ney rassmatrivayutsya modeli i metody rascheta razlichnykh udarnykh sistem, naibolee udobnye dlya primeneniya v inzhenernoy praktike. Privodyatsya primery ispol'zovaniya etikh metodov dlya rascheta udarnykh sistem buril'nykh i otboynykh mashin. Avtor nadeetsya, chto kniga budet polezna dlya studentov i aspirantov, izuchayushchikh distsipliny "Analiticheskaya dinamika i teoriya kolebaniy," "Dinamika mashin," a takzhe dlya molodykh uchenykh i inzhenerov, zanimayushchikhsya sozdaniem i issledovaniem vibroudarnykh mashin i tekhnologiy.