Vibration Analysis and Structural Dynamics for Civil Engineers : Essentials and Group-Theoretic Formulations

✍ Scribed by Zingoni, Alphose

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

PART I: ESSENTIALSIntroductionDefinitions, aims and general conceptsBasic features of a vibrating system, and further conceptsTutorial questionsSingle degree-of-freedom systemsBasic equation of motionFree vibration responseEquivalent spring stiffnesses for various structural and mechanical systemsResponse to harmonic excitationTutorial questionsSystems with more than one degree of freedomIntroductory remarkEquations of motionTechniques for assembling the stiffness matrixThe flexibility formulation of the equations of motion and assembly of the flexibility matrixDetermination of natural frequen. Read more...

Abstract: PART I: ESSENTIALSIntroductionDefinitions, aims and general conceptsBasic features of a vibrating system, and further conceptsTutorial questionsSingle degree-of-freedom systemsBasic equation of motionFree vibration responseEquivalent spring stiffnesses for various structural and mechanical systemsResponse to harmonic excitationTutorial questionsSystems with more than one degree of freedomIntroductory remarkEquations of motionTechniques for assembling the stiffness matrixThe flexibility formulation of the equations of motion and assembly of the flexibility matrixDetermination of natural frequen

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Single degree-of-freedom systems
Chapter 3: Systems with more than one degree of freedom
Chapter 4: Continuous systems
Chapter 5: Finite-element vibration analysis
Chapter 6: Basic concepts of symmetry groups and representation theory
Chapter 7: Rectilinear models
Chapter 8: Plane structural grids
Chapter 9: High-tension cable nets
Chapter 10: Finite-difference formulations for plates

✦ Subjects

Vibration.