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This document provides the homework assignment for a structural dynamics course. Students are assigned problems from the textbook "Elements of Vibration Analysis" by Leonard Meirovitch. They must complete 6 problems from chapter 1 and 2 additional multi-part problems analyzing the response of damped and underdamped single degree of freedom systems to various periodic excitations. The assignment is due on December 9th, 2014 at 5:00 pm and should be submitted in the professor's office.

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HomeWork 1

This document provides the homework assignment for a structural dynamics course. Students are assigned problems from the textbook "Elements of Vibration Analysis" by Leonard Meirovitch. They must complete 6 problems from chapter 1 and 2 additional multi-part problems analyzing the response of damped and underdamped single degree of freedom systems to various periodic excitations. The assignment is due on December 9th, 2014 at 5:00 pm and should be submitted in the professor's office.

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AE 617/AE 491 Structural Dynamics,

Homework 1
The problems are to be referred from Elements of Vibration Analysis by Leonard
Meirovitch, second edition. Turn-in the homework sheets in my oce R 131 on or
before 12-09-2014, 05:00 pm.
1. Problem No 1.12
2. Problem No 1.17
3. Problem No 1.25

4. Problem No 1.26

5. Problem No 1.28
6. Problem No 1.32
7. Appendix A of the text book mentions about the Fourier series. A dierent
periodic function is shown in Figure 1. Consider this f(t) t and calculate the
response of a damped single degree of freedom system to this excitation. Plot
the (a) the function f(t) and superimpose sinusoids with 1 to 5 terms (b)the
solution x(t) for an accurate(5 terms or more) f(t).
0
f(t)
t
A
T/2 T/2 T/2 T/2
Figure 1: Signal
8. Example 2.6 in the text book shows the response of an undamped system
to an excitation of the form F(t) = F
0
sin t U(t), where U(t) is unit step
function. Derive and plot the response of an underdamped system for the
same excitation. In another Figure, plot the above response along with a
response for F(t) = F
0
sin t t. Repeat this combined plot for dierent initial
conditions, (a) initially at rest, (b) x
0
= 0, x
0
= 0, (c) x
0
= 0, x
0
= 0, (d)
x
0
= 0, x
0
= 0. Give a detailed discussion of each case presented. You can
also plot the steady state solutions alone for both excitations in a single plot.

To determine the equilibrium positions and stability in these questions read section
1.4 in the textbook. (It is only optional to answer the sub-questions related to this
section)
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