Dynamics of structures 2023-2024

News

For the next class on April 24, please watch the videos on Damping and Tuned Mass Dampers. The instructions for the project defenses on May 15 are available (bottom of the page), as well as copies of Eurocode 8 and 1 related to parasismic and wind projects.

Old news

  • For the next class on April 17, please watch the videos on Vibrations Problems and Design and Remedial Measures.
  • For the next class on Wednesday March 27, please watch the videos on Flow Induced Vibrations and Turbulent wind excitation. The course will start at 10h.
  • For the next class on Wednesday March 20, please watch the videos on Dynamic response computation and Response spectra. Note that as last week, the class will be at 8h in building R42, there is a switch of schedule with the course Sustainability in Construction of Prof. Snoeck.
  • We will start using the finite element software finElg, make sure you have done the process of installation (described below)
  • For the next class on Wednesday March 13, please watch the videos on continuous systems and reduction to SDOF systems. Note that the class will be at 8h in building R42, there is a switch of schedule with the course Sustainability in Construction of Prof. Snoeck. Note that it will be the same next week.
  • Also do not forget to start the process of installing the finite element software finElg, and in case of problem, please contact Yves Duchêne.
  • For the next class on Wednesday March 6, please watch the two videos : MDOF systems and Finite Element models.
  • For the next class on Feb 28, please watch the end of the video on Single Degree of Freedom systems (from slide 40), and the video on Vibration Sources.

Content

All videos and slides related to my courses are available on this general page. For your reference a list of all slides covered this year, is provided here: link.

You can find the content and information specific to this class below

  • Introductory slides : pdf

Wooclap sessions

  • SDOF (pdf)
  • Vibration Sources (pdf)
  • MDOF (pdf)
  • Finite Elements (pdf)
  • Continuous System (pdf)
  • Reduction to SDOF (pdf)
  • Earthquake response spectra (pdf)
  • Dynamic response computation (pdf)
  • Flow Induced Vibrations (pdf)
  • Turbulent Wind Excitation (pdf)
  • Vibration problems (pdf)
  • Design and Remedial Measures (pdf)
  • Damping (pdf)
  • Tuned Vibration Absorbers (pdf)

Exercises

We will be using the open  software Octave (https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), which can be downloaded here (free)  : https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

For what we will be doing, the language is the same as MATLAB, so you are free to use either of the two softwares.

For the students who have never used Matlab/Octave, we advise to do the introduction session below, which is written for Matlab but fully compatible with Octave.

Please bring your own laptop with you for these exercise session.

Project

For the project, we will be using a combination of Matlab/Octave and the finite element software FinElg, see instructions to install here

-Parasismic project : Questions (pdf), General Presentation (pdf), link to Eurocode 8 – EN-1998-1) (pdf)

-Wind project : Questions (pdf), General Presentation (pdf), link to Eurocode 1 – En.1991.1.4.2005 (pdf)

-Instructions for project defenses on May 15 (pdf)

0. Introduction to Matlab/Octave  pdf  / Correction pdf

1. SDOF systems and response spectra  pdf  / Correction m-file

earthquakes input file (.mat)

2. MDOF systems  pdf  / Correction m-file