EN.560.630 Structural Dynamics
Department of Civil and Systems Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Describe and model the behavior of objects in motion (think buildings in an earthquake, active control of UAVs, a car skidding around a curve, floating particles) with open-source computational tools.
Lecture Topics:
- Equations of motion, ODE solution
- Damping and energy dissipation
- Harmonic excitation
- Impulse loadings
- Numerical ODE solutions: Central Difference Method, Runge-Kutta
- Earthquake ground motions
- Modeling material nonlinearity
- Vibration mode shapes
- Active control
- System identification