EXPERIMENTAL VIBRATION AND DYNAMIC SYSTEM ANALYSIS

EMA/ME 570

Experimental methods for design and analysis of mechanical components, structures and materials. Electrically and optically recorded stress, strain and deformation data; computer acquisition/reduction/presentation techniques; applications to static and transient events, sensors, transducer design, NDT, fracture and residual stresses.

EMA 747

Exact solutions and sectorial linearization; free and forced vibration of mechanical systems with nonlinear restoring force; self-excited mechanical vibrations and relaxation vibrations; subharmonic responses; nonlinear vibration of mechanical systems with more than one degree of freedom; nonlinear vibration of bounded continuous media; random excitation and random response, random vibrations of mechanical systems and structures; random vibrations of nonlinear mechanical systems; failure of materials under random vibrations.

ME 448

Integrated treatment of mathematical modeling and analysis of mechanical systems. Modeling of linear and nonlinear systems and their performance under transient, periodic and random loads.

EMA 545

General theory of free, forced, and transient vibrations; vibration transmission, isolation, and measurement; normal modes and generalized coordinates; method of matrix equation formulation and solution. The application of theory and methods to the analysis, measurement and design of dynamic systems.

ME 740

Vibration of mechanical components subject to dynamic loads; analytical, numerical and finite element methods applied to the analysis and design of mechanical systems consisting of cables, bars, shafts, beams, frames, rings, membranes, plates and shells. Knowledge of vibrations [such asM E 440] strongly encouraged.