AME 460 SCHEDULE

WEEK

DATES

MATERIAL COVERED

in TEXT

REMARKS

1

8/20-24

Introduction, Ch. 1

Spring, damping elements; combinations; harmonic motion

2

8/27-31

Secs. 2.1-5

Free vibration of undamped single DOF systems

3

9/3-7

Secs. 2.6

Free vibration of damped single DOF systems

4

9/10-14

Secs. 2.7-8

Coulomb and hysteretic damping

5

9/17-21

Secs. 3.1-4

Harmonically excited vibration

6

9/24-28

Secs. 3.5-11

Resonance, stability, base excitation Exam 1 (9/26)

7

10/1-5

Secs. 4.1-3

Response of a single DOF system to general forced excitation,

8

10/8-12

Secs. 4.4-5

Response spectra, numerical methods

9

10/15-19

Secs. 5.1-3

Two-DOF systems, natural frequencies

10

10/22-26

Secs. 5.4-5

Forced vibration of two-DOF systems

11

10/29-11/2

Ch. 6

Introduction to multi-DOF systems

12

11/5-9

Ch. 6

Multi-DOF systems Exam 2 (11/7)

13

11/12-16

Ch. 7

Natural frequencies and mode shapes

14

11/19-23

Ch. 9

Vibration isolation and control

15

11/26-30

Ch. 10

Vibration measurement and identification

16

12/3-7

Ch. 8

Introduction to continuous systems

 

12/7

FINALS WEEK

Exam 3 (11 am - 1 pm)

 

Exam Dates:

               

Exam 1 September 26 Chs. 1, 2
Exam 2 November 7 Chs. 3, 4, 5
Exam 3 December 7 Chs. 6-10

 

 

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