Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing OR Instructor Consent.
Description
Analytical methods of evaluating the dynamic response of structural systems. Topics include free vibration, harmonic and periodic excitation, and step excitation of single-degree-of-freedom systems; numerical evaluation of dynamic response using time-stepping methods and Newmark's method; response and design spectra; and earthquake response of inelastic systems.