10CV767 Structural Dynamics syllabus for CV


Part A
Unit-1 6 hours

Introduction to structural dynamics, Brief history of vibration andEarthquakes, Major earthquakes, Earthquakes zones, some basic definitions,Vibration of single degree of freedom system, undamped, damped, freevibrations, logarithmic decrement.

Unit-2 6 hours

Forced vibrations of single degree freedom systems, response of undampedand damped systems subjected to harmonic loading, rotation unbalance,reciprocating unbalance.

Unit-3 7 hours

Duhamel’s integral, response due to general system of loading, dynamic loadfactor, response spectrum, response of SDOF subjected to harmonic baseexcitation, vibration isolation.

Unit-4 7 hours

Free vibration of multi degree of freedom systems, natural frequencies,normal modes, orthoganality property of normal modes, eigen values

Part B
Unit-5 6 hours

Shear buildings modeled as multi degree of freedom systems, free vibrations,natural frequencies.

Unit-6 6 hours

Forced vibration motion of shear builings, modal super position method,response of shear buldings to base motion, harmonic forced excitation.

Unit-7 7 hours

Damped motion of shear buildings, equations for damped shear buildings,uncoupled damped equations, conditions for damping uncoupling

Unit-8 7 hours

Dynamic analysis of beams stiffness matrices, lumped mass and consistentmass formulation equations of motion.

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