Description
Single-degree-of-freedom elastic structures (SDOF): response due to harmonic loads, pulse loads and impulse. Resonance. Evaluation of damping. Duhamel or convolution integral. Blast loading. Response spectrum method. Motion of supports and response due to earthquakes. Earthquake response spectra in seismic analysis and design.
Multi-degree-of-freedom elastic structures (MDOF): stiffness and flexibility matrices. Undamped free vibrations. Natural frequencies and natural modes. Orthogonality conditions. Generalized mass, stiffness matrices and force vector. Damped forced vibrations. Response by modal superposition method. Response of MDOF systems under earthquake loads.
Credits
3 Hours