Program Overview

Dynamic Response of Civil Engineering Constructions

Course Description

This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts and techniques for structural dynamics and their practical applications to structural engineering. Students will learn the response of single degree of freedom (SDOF) and multi degree of freedom (MDOF) systems due to free vibration and forced (harmonic, periodic, arbitrary, pulse) vibration, and the earthquake response of elastic and inelastic buildings. Modal analysis, response spectrum analysis, and time-stepping methods for structural systems will be briefly covered.

Course Details

• Course period: 17/01/21
• Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Course Content

The course will cover the following topics:

• Response of single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems
• Response of multi degree of freedom (MDOF) systems
• Free vibration
• Forced vibration (harmonic, periodic, arbitrary, pulse)
• Earthquake response of elastic and inelastic buildings
• Modal analysis
• Response spectrum analysis
• Time-stepping methods for structural systems