Vibration Engineering
Summer Semester 2007

Last revision: 19 March 2007

Professor: Frank Owen, http://www.calpoly.edu/~fowen/, 089/1265-3348, Office: Bldg R, Room 4.059
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Exam:  There will be a 1.5 hour exam at the end of the course to test your knowledge of the subject.
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Week Date Topic Reading Homework
1 20.03 Introduction; mk-system; mck-system; FBD/MAD diagrams; harmonic motion, Matlab 1.1 1.5,6,7,11,15,20,25
2 27.03 Single-degree-of-freedom systems; free, undamped systems; solution of ODE; characteristics of the motion; damped systems; damping; critical damping; energy methods 1.2-4 1.31,38,41,45,49,54
3 03.04 Stiffness and measurement; design for vibration; stability 1.5-8 1.60,63,68,72,74,48,80,82
4 17.04 Forced, SDOF systems; harmonic excitation; resonance; ways to apply harmonic forcing function; non-harmonic excitation; step function; impulse function; arbitrary forcing function 2.1-2 2.6,9,17
5 24.04 The double pendulum; Laplace transformations; base excitation 2.3-4 Double pendulum, 2.30, Prb 4, 2.34
6 08.05 Rotating unbalance; non-linear problems; state space representation; impulse response 1.10, 2.5, 2.7, 3.1 2.45,47,1.99,100,2.62,63,3.4,6,9
7 15.05 Response to arbitrary forcing function; arbitrary, periodic forcing functions; Simulink 3.2-4 3.18,19,20,34,27, Prb 1
8 22.05 Frequency response; two-degree-of-freedom systems; a neat trick 3.7, 4.1 3.45, Prb 2, 4.1
9 05.06 2DOF systems; the eigenvalue problem; modal analysis 4.2-3 4.11,12,26,27,32,33
10 12.06 Systems with greater than two DOFs 4.4 4.41,50
11 19.06 Applied vibrations in industry; rotor dynamics 5.1-4  
12 26.06 Distributed-parameter systems 6.1-5  
13 10.07 Review