Course Description: CEE511 - Structural Dynamics (3 Credits) Fall Semester 2013-2014
Course Description: CEE511 - Structural Dynamics (3 Credits) Fall Semester 2013-2014
Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jerlynch/cee511/
Catalog Description:
Dynamic equilibrium of structures. Response of a single degree of freedom system to
dynamic excitation: free vibration, harmonic loads, pulses and earthquakes. Response
spectra. Response of multi-degree of freedom systems. Seismic behavior of buildings and
the basis of seismic building codes.
Course Requirements:
Regular attendance
Weekly homework assignments
Midterm exams (details will be provided later)
Final exam (details will be provided later)
Homework:
Homework will normally be assigned each Wednesday and due the following
Wednesday in class (unless otherwise noted). Please note, late homework will not be
accepted. You are allowed to work on the homework in small groups, but you must
write up your own homework to hand in. Homework will often involve MATLAB
programming. Homework will be graded on a scale of 100.
Grading:
Homework 30%, midterm 35%, final 35%. These weights are approximate; the right to
change them later is reserved.
Prerequisites:
Exposure to linear algebra and matrices. You should have seen the following topics:
matrices and vectors, (introductory) linear algebra and differential equations.
CEE512 Theory of Structures or equivalent (recommended but not required)