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Fundamentals of Dynamics for Civil Engineers

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 228-0246/02
Abbreviation ZSD
Course title Fundamentals of Dynamics for Civil Engineers
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Structural Mechanics
Course coordinator Ing. Lenka Koubová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Basic concepts, harmonic motion, composition of vibrations
2. Degrees of freedom, stiffness, and flexibility of a structure; composition of stiffnesses
3. Equivalent concentrated (lumped) mass
4. Vibration of a system with one degree of freedom, natural undamped vibration, equation of motion, natural frequency
5. Forced undamped vibration of a system with one degree of freedom
6. Kinematic excitation, expansion of a function into a Fourier series
7. Damping, natural damped vibration of a system with one degree of freedom
8. Forced damped vibration of a system with one degree of freedom
9. Torsional vibration of a system with one degree of freedom
10. Vibration of systems with more degrees of freedom, natural frequencies, mode shapes, and methods of stiffness and flexibility constants
11. Vibration of systems with more degrees of freedom, orthogonality, and normalization of mode shapes
12. Vibration of systems with more degrees of freedom, solution of frame structures, Rayleigh energy method
13. Vibration of multi-story frame structures

E-learning

LMS Moodle 228-0246 – Fundamentals of Dynamics for Civil Engineers

Povinná literatura

Chopra, A. K. Dynamics of structures: theory and applications to earthquake engineering. Fourth ed. Prentice-Hall International series in civil engineering and engineering mechanics. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2012. ISBN 978-0-13-285803-8 .
Meriam, J. L., Kraige, L. G., Bolton, J. N. Engineering mechanics. Volume 2, Dynamics, SI version. Ninth edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2020. ISBN 978-1119-66528-1 .
Humar, J. Dynamics of Structures. CRC Press, 2012. ISBN 9780203112564 .

Doporučená literatura

Ashok, K. J. Dynamics of Structures with MATLAB Applications. 2016. ISBN 9332579105 .