Dynamics of Structures
Code
7580
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Civil
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Corneliu Cismasiu
Weekly hours
5
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
This course is intended to supplement fundamental concepts of structural dynanics and sound principles for modeling and design.
"Engineering judgement" based on evaluation of basic characteristics of loading and of the resisting system is trained, both through analytical work and study of applications.
Some special problems are studied to provide insight that will make future engineers aware of specific and interesting cases.
Subject matter
- Introduction to Dynamics of Structures
- Dynamic response of one degree-of-freedom systems
- Free vibrations
- Response to harmonic excitation
- Response to other loading functions
- Rayleigh method
- Response to earthquakes using response spectras
- Dynamic response of multi degrees-of-freedom systems
- Stiffness, mass and damping matrices
- Modal analysis of multi dof systems
- Response to earthquakes
- Structural design for seismic resistance (NP EN 1998-1 2010)
Bibliography
Anil K. Chopra. Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering. Prentice-Hall, September 2006
Ray W. Clough and Joseph Penzien. Dynamics of structures. McGraw-Hill, ISBN-13: 9780070113947, March 1993
NP EN 1998-1 2010