3.00 Credits
Vibrations of lumped-parameters systems - free and forced vibrations of SDOF and MDOF systems, general eigenvalue problem and modal analysis. Variational approach and energy methods. Vibrations of distributed-parameter systems - strings, bars, shafts, beams, membranes and plates. Approximate methods - Rayleigh's Quotient, Rayleigh-Ritz methods, method of functions expansion, Galerkin's and assumed mode methods. Preq: ME 8460 or consent of instructor. Students who have not completed ME 8460 but have completed an undergraduate course in vibration or in dynamics and differential equations, should request a registration override from the instructor.