News
- The solutions to the exercise sessions 7 to 9 are now available from Canvas (VUB login required). As this is the first year we worked with this style of examination we have been experiencing some technical difficulties as well as underestimating the time it would take to review them. We’ll try our best to release the grades on the exercises by the end of today as well as your personalized reviews.
- Example exam questions for the second part of the oral examination with Prof. Weijtjens are now online, they can be found here: link. For your reference a list of all slides covered this year, is provided here: link. Keep in mind this is part two of the oral examination, after completing the case studies with Prof. Deraemaeker.
- Thursday Dec 14 from 8h to 10h is the last class of the course Mechanical Vibrations. We will welcome Cédric Dumoulin, Structural Team Leader at Aerospace Lab (https://www.aerospacelab.com.) for a conference about satellites’ design against vibrations during launch and while in space. The seminar will be followed by a session of questions and answers, which can be related to any of the aspects of the course (exercice and projects under python – theoretical aspects) as well as course content and case studies.
- We’ve just released session 9 for you to complete. All three final sessions are now available and all theory required to solve them is now available. Keep in mind that all three exercises need to be submitted by December 22nd.
With that deadline in mind, we see a rather low rate of completion on sessions 7 and 8, in both cases less than 10% of you have submitted. We also acknowledge that Session 7 might be a bit tricky. So we recommend making the sessions in the following order; start with Session 8, followed by Session 9 and finish with Session 7. Session 9 does build from session 7 but can still be made independently. - We’ve just closed the submission for exercise sessions 1 to 6. While you should still have access to your copy of the notebook, it will no longer be possible to (re-)submit. The solutions of the first 6 exercise sessions have now been released on Canvas (VUB login required).
Old news
- On Thursday Dec 7, I will cover the last topic of the course “Vibration damping”, please watch the related video before coming to the class.
- On Thursday Nov 30 from 8 to 10h, we will cover the theory related to ‘Tuned Vibration Absorbers’ and ‘Vibration Isolation’. Both topics are very important to complete the last sessions of exercises (Session 7 deals with tuned vibration absorbers, and session 9 with vibration isolation). In order to prepare for the class, please watch the two videos “tuned vibration absorbers” and “vibration isolation”.
- For the next class on Thursday Nov 23, we will have a flipped class. Please watch the videos on ‘Vibration Problems‘ and ‘Design and Remedial Measures‘.
- The slides for the two lecture sessions on Structural Testing are now available online (see below: Content)
- The next two sessions of November 9th and November 16th will be new/updated modules on Vibration testing and Identifications. There are no videos to watch yet, these modules will be given as regular sessions in class. As a conclusion to these two sessions industry expert Simone Manzato (Siemens PLM software) will join us on November 23rd for a live demonstration and experiences from industry!
- For the next class, October 27, please watch the video Dynamic response computation. This is quite a short video, but a very important topic for the preparation of case studies for the oral examination. We will be doing a wooclap session as well as some group exercises to make sure this is well understood by all students present.
- Assuming that classes will resume as normal by next friday, we ask you to watch the video on Flow induced vibrations (20 minutes) for which we will do a Wooclap session in the class. In addition we will do a classic session on Real world loads (incl. Wave loads), as this is a new module there is no video. The slides can be found below in Content.
- For the next class on Friday Oct 13, watch the videos on Finite elements, Continuous systems, and reduction to SDOF systems. This will be a total of about 1h of video.
- For the next class on Friday Oct 6th, watch the video on MDOF systems. Be aware this is a 50minute video.
- For the next class on Friday Sept 29, watch the end of the video on SDOF systems, and the video on Vibration sources.
- Introduction to exercise sessions on Tuesday Sept 26, 8h to 12h in rooms S.K.4.201, S.K.4.401, S.K.4. 601. Bring your own laptop and make sure you are registered on canvas (see instructions below : How to join exercise sessions). Presence is compulsory and attendance will be taken. If you are unable to attend for a valid reason, contact Prof Arnaud Deraemaeker by email.
- First class Friday Sept 22 from 2 to 4 pm on Solbosch campus, building U, room UB4.132
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
- How to join the exercises sessions : pdf
- Real world loads slides : pdf
- Structural testing: pdf
Example exam questions for the second part of the oral examination with Prof. Weijtjens: link.
Wooclap sessions
- SDOF (pdf)
- Vibrations sources (pdf)
- MDOF (pdf)
- Finite Elements (pdf)
- Continuous systems (pdf)
- Equivalent SDOF (pdf)
- Flow Induced Vibrations (pdf)
- Dynamic response computation (pdf)
- Vibration problems (pdf)
- Design and remedial measures (pdf)
- Tuned Vibration Absorbers (pdf)
- Vibration isolation (pdf)
- Damping (pdf)