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Dynamics
FAST-NDB018Acad. year: 2024/2025
Assessment of civil engineering structures subjected to dynamic loads. Vibration theory fundamentals. Free vibration of single degree of freedom systems (SDOF). Experimental determination of fundamental natural frequency and damping factor. Response of SDOF systems to harmonic excitation. Response of SDOF systems to special forms of excitation and to general dynamic excitation. Frequency domain analysis. DFT, FFT. Mathematical models of continuous systems - axial and transverse vibration of elastic beams. Vibration of thin flat plate. Mathematical models of multi degree of freedoms (MDOF) systems. Application of Newton’s Laws to lumped-parameter models. Hamilton’s principle. Lagrange’s equations. Application of Lagrange’s equations to continuous systems. Free vibration of MDOF systems. Dynamic response by mode superposition method. The eigenvalue problem and numerical evaluation of modes and frequencies of MDOF systems. Dynamic analysis by finite element method (FEM). Element stiffness, damping, mass matrices and element force vector. Assembly of system Matrices. Vibration analysis employing FEM models. Direct integration methods for dynamic response. Response of systems to seismic excitation.
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The course output is knowledge in the theory of structure vibration area. Student knows necessary technicals and became acquainted with option of computational models useful for dynamic analyses of the structure. The skills are possible to apply in solving of dynamic response of the structure. Obtained knowledge and acquirements are the basis for practical design and appreciation of dynamically loaded structures. The theoretic knowledge is instrumental towards to understanding of single type of dynamic analyses implemented in modern computational programs based on FEM.
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- Programme NPC-SIS Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
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