STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS

Solomon A.
 Table of Contents
PART I – SINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM SYSTEMS
 General
 Free Vibration
 Response to Harmonic and Periodic Excitation
 Response to Arbitrary, Step and Pulse Excitation
 Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response
 Generalized Single Degree of Freedom Systems
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PART II – MULTI-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM SYSTEMS
 General
 Free Vibration
 Damping in Structures
 Dynamic Response of Linear Systems
 Systems with Distributed mass and Elasticity
 Introduction to the Finite Element Method
 References
1. ANIL K. CHOPRA- Dynamics of Structures, Theory
and Application in Earthquake Engineering.

2. Ray W. CLOUGH, Joseph Penzien- Dynamics of

Structures.

3. Clarence W. de Silva- VIBRATION, Fundamentals

and Practice.
 Evaluation

• Assignments 20%
• Mid Examination 30%
• Final Examination 50%