Lesson Plan of Mechanical Vibrations

L1 Introduction to the Subject.

L2 Terms associated to Vibrations, Types of Vibrations, and Simple Harmonic Motion
(SHM).
L3 Principle of Superposition applied to SHM, Simple Numericals.
L4 Numericals on Principle of Superposition applied to SHM Continued, Beats.
L5 Fourier Theorem, Numericals on Representation of Periodic motion in Fourier
series
L6 Numericals on Representation of Periodic motion in Fourier series continued.
L7 Equation of motion & Natural Frequency With FBD of a Spring-Mass System.
Simple Pendulum.
L8 Determination of Natural Frequency by Rayleigh Method
L9 Determination of Natural Frequency by Energy Method and Transverse vibration
L1 Torsional Vibrations, Effect of mass of Spring & rod
0
L1 Equivalent Stiffness of Spring Combinations.
1
L1 Compound Pendulum, Numericals.
2
L1 Numericals.
3
L1 Different types of Damping.
4
L1 Equation of Motion and Natural frequency of a Damped Spring Mass System.
5
L1 Concept of Critical Damping and its importance; Study of response of viscous
6 damped system for different Cases : Over Damped System
L1 Study of response of viscous damped system for different Cases : Critical & Under
7 Damped System
L1 Logarithmic Decrement
8
L1 Numericals
9
L2 Forced vibration of undamped & Damped single degree freedom systems
0
L2 Solution by Complex Algebra, Concept of Frequency Response.
1
L2 Reciprocating and Rotating unbalance.
2
L2 Vibration Isolation.
3
L2 Vibration Isolation -Transmissibility ratio.
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L2 Energy dissipated by damping, Sharpness of resonance.

5
L2 Base excitation and Problems
6
L2 Necessity of Vibration Measuring Instrument, Vibration Measurement Scheme,
7 Vibrometers & Accelerometer
L2 Critical Speed: Whirling of Shafts Without air damping,
8
L2 Whirling of Shafts With air damping
9
L3 Discussion of speeds above and Below critical speeds.
0
L3 Numericals
1
L3 Numericals
2
L3 Principle modes & Normal modes of Vibration, Co-ordinate Coupling, generalized
3 and principle co-ordinates.
L3 Free Vibrations in terms of initial conditions
4
L3 Geared Systems
5
L3 Forced oscillations & Harmonic excitation applied to vehicle suspension systems.
6
L3 Undamped Dynamic Vibration Absorber & Dynamic Reciprocating Engines
7
L3 Numericals
8
L3 Introduction to Numerical methods for Multi Degree Freedom Systems
9
L4 Influence coefficients
0
L4 Influence coefficients, Maxwell reciprocal theorem, Orthogonality Principle
1
L4 Dunkerly’s Method
2
L4 Method of Determination of all the natural frequencies using sweeping matrix and
3 Orthogonality principle.
L4 Holzer Method For Spring mass systems
4
L4 Holzer Method For Torsional systems
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L4 Stodola Method For Spring mass systems

6
L4 Stodola Method For Torsional systems
7
L4 Signal analysis.
8
L4 Dynamic testing of machines and structures.
9
L5 Modal analysis.
0
L5 Frequency response functions in modal analysis.
1
L5 Machine condition monitoring and Diagnosis.
2