Earthquake Engineering

Contents:

1. Vibrations and the nature of time dependent phenomena, inertia, dynamic equilibrium and mathematical models of physical systems; Energy storing and dissipation mechanisms.

2. Dynamics of Single Degree of Freedom Systems, undamped and damped, free and forced vibrations; Steady-state and transient response, impulse response.

3. Harmonic response and applications to vibration isolation; theory of seismic pickups: Seismometers, accelerometers.

4. Convolution integral and solution of equation of motion; Numerical methods for solution of linear and non-linear equations of motion; response/shock spectra; Fourier transforms and analysis in frequency domain.

5. Dynamics of Multi-Degree of Freedom Systems, Lagrange’s equations; equations of motion for MDOF systems; Algebraic eigenvalue problem and free vibration analysis; Undamped and damped normal modes; Mode superposition method for dynamic analysis of linear systems; Modetruncation and correction for the missing mass.

6. Dynamics of Continuous Systems, Hamilton’s principle; Axial and transverse vibrations of beams, torsional vibrations of shafts; Normal modes; Free and forced vibration analysis by mode superposition; Vibrations of elastic halfspace.

7. Approximate Methods for Vibration Analysis, Rayleigh quotient, rayleighritz method.

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