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CE-702 (C) · Structural Dynamics/Official Syllabus

Structural Dynamics (CE-702 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Undamped Single Degree of Freedom System

  • Degree of freedom, undamped system
  • Force displacement relation, damping force
  • Equation of motion, mass-spring damper system
  • De28099Alemberte28099s Principle
  • Solution of differential equation of motion
  • frequency, period and amplitude of motion
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Unit 2

Damped Single Degree of Freedom System

  • Viscous damping, equation of motion
  • critically damped systems
  • over and under damped systems
  • logarithmic decrement
3
Unit 3

Response to harmonic and periodic vibrations

  • Harmonic vibration of undamped and viscously damped systems
  • natural frequency and damping
  • force transmission and vibration isolation
  • Fourier series representation, response to periodic force
4
Unit 4

Response to Arbitrary, Step, and Pulse Excitation

  • Response to unit impulse, arbitrary force
  • Duhamele28099s Integral
  • step force
  • rectangular pulse force
  • half cycle sinusoidal pulse force
  • triangular pulse force
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Unit 5

Multi Degree of Freedom System

  • Matrix formulation, stiffness and flexibility influence coefficients
  • eigen value problem, normal modes and their properties
  • Matrix iteration technique for eigen value, and eigen vectors
  • Free and forced vibration by modal analysis

Reference Books

  • Dynamics of Structures — A. K. Chopra
  • Dynamics of structures — R.W. Clough, J. Penzien
  • Introduction to Structural Dynamics — J M Biggs
  • Structural Dynamics — Mario Paz
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