Structural Dynamics
- Course Code
- EG5559
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr R D Neilson
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Notes
Part of the MSc in Oil and Gas Structural Engineering.Overview
The course is delivered as 9 topics as follows:
1. Coordinate systems, modelling of systems and generating equations of motion
2. Vibrating of single degree of freedom systems - free and forced vibration
3. Impulse loads and Duhamel's integral
4. Vibration of multi-degree of freedom systems - modes and frequencies
5. Structural response to harmonic excitation
6. Vibration of Beams and cables
7. Transient excitation
8. Shock Spectra
9. Rayleigh Ritz method.
Structure
5 Topics delivered by webCT in 5 blocks of teaching, 3 weeks apart.
Assessment
Continuous assessment (50% and 1 three hour exam (50%).