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CE-702 (C) RGPV B.Tech

Structural Dynamics (SD)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for CE-702 (C)

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Undamped Single Degree of Freedom System 11 topics
  • Degree of freedom
  • Undamped system
  • Force–displacement relation
  • Damping force
  • Equation of motion
  • Mass–spring–damper system
  • D’Alembert’s principle
  • Solution of the differential equation of motion
  • Frequency (\(\omega\))
  • Period
  • Amplitude of motion
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Damped Single Degree of Freedom System 5 topics
  • Viscous damping
  • Equation of motion for damped systems
  • Critically damped systems
  • Over‑damped and under‑damped systems
  • Logarithmic decrement
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Response to Harmonic and Periodic Vibrations 5 topics
  • Harmonic vibration of undamped and viscously damped systems
  • Natural frequency and damping ratio
  • Force transmission and vibration isolation
  • Fourier series representation of periodic forces
  • Response to periodic excitation
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Response to Arbitrary, Step, and Pulse Excitation 7 topics
  • Response to unit impulse (Dirac delta)
  • Response to arbitrary force functions
  • Duhamel’s integral for transient response
  • Step force response
  • Rectangular pulse force response
  • Half‑cycle sinusoidal pulse force response
  • Triangular pulse force response
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Multi Degree of Freedom System 6 topics
  • Matrix formulation of multi‑degree‑of‑freedom systems
  • Stiffness and flexibility influence coefficients
  • Eigenvalue problem for natural frequencies
  • Normal modes and their properties
  • Matrix iteration techniques for eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Free and forced vibration analysis by modal superposition
Unit 5 notes
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