This is the second course in a series of courses that will equip students with skills that will help them solve problems encountered in major courses in the BS Civil Engineering program. In the first course of the series (CE 24), students learned about various analytical methods to solve commonly encountered engineering problems. In this course, students will learn about basic programming and numerical methods for solving mathematical problems and...
Response of structural components to transient loads and foundation excitation; single- and multi-degree-of-freedom systems; viscous and proportional damping; modal method; response spectra; introduction to wave propagation in solids.
Methods of structural dynamics for discretized and continuous systems in free and forced vibration; formulation and solution of partial differential equation of motion; potential and kinetic energy methods; mode-superposition; Rayleigh quotient; numerical solution to the eigenvalue problem; direct integration methods; frequency domain analysis; introduction to nonlinear dynamics.
