Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Department of Civil Engineering

CE5620: Structural Dynamics
Jul-Nov 2018
Slot: C (Old/New Credits: 4/10)

Mon Tue Wed Fri

10.00 am – 10.50 am 9.00 am – 9.50 am 8.00 am – 8.50 am 12.00 noon – 12.50 pm

Instructor: Prof. B N Rao, STR 208 Tel: 22574285, E-mail: bnrao@iitm.ac.in

Course Outline:
Introduction, Systems with single degree of freedom (SDOF) - equation of motion - Analysis of
free Vibration - Response of harmonic, impulsive, periodic and general dynamic loading, free and
Forced Vibration response of MDOF damped and undamped discrete systems -Equations of
motion Evaluation of natural frequencies and modes -Approximate methods, Overview of
dynamics of distributed parameter- systems Flexural beams shear beams - columns, Base Excited
systems - formulation of equations for SDOF & MDOF systems - concepts of spectral quantities
and Response spectrum - Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, computational and
numerical methods- Solution of eigenvalue problems- Mode superposition method & Modal
truncation errors- Modal Acceleration method, Direct Integration methods - Explicit and Implicit
methods. Overview of random vibration.

References:
1. Chopra A., Dynamics of Structures, Pearson Prentice Hall; 4 edition (6 December 2011).
2. Clough R., Penzien J., Dynamics of Structures , Second Edition (revised), Computer and
Structures Inc., 2003.
3. Humar J.L., Dynamics of Structures, Third Edition, CRC Press, 2012.
4. Leonard Meirovitch, Elements of Vibration Analysis, McGraw-Hill Inc., US; 2nd Revised
edition (1 March 1986).
5. Mario Paz, William Leigh, Structural Dynamics: Theory and Computation, SPRINGER
SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC 2007.
6. Roy R. Craig, Andrew J. Kurdila, Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics, Wiley; 2 edition
(July 11, 2006).
7. Mukhopadhyay, Structural Dynamics : Vibrations & Systems, Ane Books Pvt Ltd, 01-Jan-
2008.
8. Prab Bhatt, Programming the Dynamic Analysis of Structures, CRC Press; 1 edition
(December 6, 2002).
9. Franklin Y. Cheng, Matrix Analysis of Structural Dynamics, CRC Press (19 October 2000).
10. S. Rajasekaran, Structural dynamics of earthquake engineering, Theory and application
using MATHEMATICA and MATLAB, CRC Press; 1 edition (July 8, 2009).
11. Douglas Thorby, Structural Dynamics and Vibration in Practice: An Engineering Handbook,
Butterworth-Heinemann (8 January 2008).
12. Ashok K. Jain, Dynamics of structures with MATLAB applications, Pearson Education; First
edition (20 March 2016).
13. Singiresu S. Rao, Mechanical Vibrations, Pearson; 6 edition (January 20, 2016).

Grading Pattern:
Assignments Quiz I Quiz II Final Total
10 20 20 50 100