Advanced Vibrations of Structures

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: MECHENG 541. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Energy formulation for nonconservative gyroscopic systems. Spectral methods for free and forced vibrations. Eigenvalue and boundary value problems. Non self-adjoint systems. Variational methods of approximation: Bubnov-Galerkin. Perturbation theory for the eigenvalue problem. Dynamics of rotating systems. Dynamics of constrained dynamical systems.