Course Overview
This course aims to develop students’ fundamental knowledge and understanding of free and forced vibration of mechanical systems with and without damping, including steady state and transient vibrations; vibration of multi-degree of freedom systems; vibration isolation and modal analysis, vibration of continuous systems and beam vibrations. Introduction of Lagrange's equation for mechanical systems is also discussed. Common engineering software packages are used throughout the course to model, design and evaluate system performance.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Describe free and harmonically excited, and transient vibrations.
- Describe properties of vibrating systems.
- Analyze systems with multiple degrees of freedom.
- Describe different computational methods.
- Analyze problems in rotor unbalance, shaft whirling, and vibration isolations.
- Discuss vibration measurement instruments and methods.
- Solve vibration problems in rotating machines such as pumps, turbines, generators and compressors.
Effective as of Fall 2008
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