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VIBRATION ENGINEERING

Target group:
1. Undergraduate engineering students

Purpose:
The aim of this course is to enable the student to:
1. Understand the types of vibration sources and the effects of vibrations on
engineering structures;
2. Get to understand the methods used in vibration control and their relative benefits;
3. Get to know the process of design for vibration control;
4. Get to know how to monitor vibration in engineering systems;

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Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course the student should be able to:
1. Analyze un-damped and damped, freely vibrating single-degree-of-freedom
mechanical systems,
2. Analyze forced vibrating single-degree-of-freedom systems,
3. Analyze free and forced vibrating two-degree-of-freedom systems and their
applications,
4. Understand the function of vibration measurement equipment

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Course description:
1. Basic concepts: Introduction, periodic motion, free body diagrams, types of
springs;
2. Types of vibrations: Free vibrations, damped vibrations, forced vibrations,
complex frequency response, rotating unbalance, unbalanced rotor, energy
methods of analysis;
3. Two-degree of freedom systems: Stiffness method, coordinate coupling, solution
to forced harmonic vibration, flexibility method, Eigen values and Eigen vectors,
Holzer's method, Myklestad beam method, Transfer matrix method;
4. Approximate methods: Dunkley’s method, Rayleigh’s method, matrix iteration
method,
5. Vibration measurement and control: vibration measurement, control by design,
energy dissipated by damping, vibration absorption, vibration dampers and
absorbers, measurement equipment.
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Prescribed text books:
1. W. T. Thompson, Theory of vibrations with applications, Prentice Hall, 200?.
2. D. J. Inman, Engineering vibration, Prentice Hall, 1994.

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