Mechanical Vibrations

University of Alabama at Birmingham

CourseME 575

Development of equations of motion for free and forced single-degree-offreedom (SDOF) systems. Multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Transient response, support motion and vibration isolation for SDOFs. Vibration absorbers, generalized mass and stiffness, orthogonality of normal modes, and root solving and Gauss elimination procedures. Chelosky decomposition and Jacobi diagonalization methods.

Credits

3 credits

Course Code

ME 575