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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 725616, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2009/725616 Research Article An Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Damped Gyroscopic Second-Order Systems Yongxin Yuan School of Mathematics and Physics, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China Correspondence should be addressed to Yongxin Yuan, yuanyx 703@163.com Received 31 March 2009; Accepted 29 August 2009 Recommended by Jerzy Warminski The inverse eigenvalue problem of constructing symmetric positive semidefinite matrix D written as D ≥ 0 and real-valued skew-symmetric matrix G i.e., GT −G of order n for the quadratic pencil Qλ : λ2 M λD G K , where M 0, K ≥ 0 are given analytical mass and stiffness a a a a matrices, so that Qλ has a prescribed subset of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions under which this quadratic inverse eigenvalue problem is solvable are specified. Copyright q 2009 Yongxin Yuan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Vibrating structures such as beams, buildings, bridges, highways, and large space structures, are distributed parameter systems. While it is desirable to obtain a solution of a vibration problem in its own natural setting of distributed parameter systems; due to the lack of appropriate computational methods, in practice, very often a distributed parameter system is first discretized to a matrix second-order model referred to as an analytical model using techniques