Shrikant Bhave is an internationally well known expert on the subject of vibration analysis and has nearly four decades of experience in teaching and in industry. During his tenure at BHEL (1976-1996), he has solved a large number extremely complex problems of vibration and vibration related failures encountered on large power plants and industrial equipments in India as well as abroad. Also during his tenure at BHEL he guided several stress & vibration analysis related M.Tech / PHD theses at IIT/IISC. He has published more than 95 papers in international journal and conferences. He also trained graduate engineer trainees of BHEL in this subject. His book on theory and practice of vibration analysis reflects his vast experience in the field while teaching at H.B.T.I. (Kanpur 1966-76), working in BHEL (1976-1996), working at L&T (1996-2002), working as Director academic SVIT (Vasad 2002-2008) and working as a free lance consultant since 2003. His clients include major industries such as L&T, Ultatech Cement, ACC, APGENCO, IOCL, RIL, NTPC, UJVNL etc.