Civil 507 - Dynamics of Structures I
2024
Course Outline
Acknowledgment Statement:
UBC’s Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam people, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.
Dynamic Analysis and Response of Structural Systems:
• formulation of equation of motion
• free vibrations and response to harmonic, periodic and transient loadings
• response to impulsive loadings and response to general dynamic loadings
• numerical evaluation of dynamic response
• earthquake response of linear and nonlinear systems
• generalized SDOF systems
• frequency domain method of analysis
• formulation of equations of motion for MODF systems
• free vibration of MODF systems
• dynamic analysis and response of MODF systems
• damping in structures
Recommended Texts:
• A.K. Chopra, Dynamics of Structures: theory and applications to earthquake engineering, Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 5th Edition 2016.
• R.W. Clough and J. Penzien, Dynamics of Structures, Computers and Structures Inc., Berkeley, California, 3rd. Edition, 2003.
• J.L. Humar, Dynamics of Structures, CRC Press/Balkena, The Netherlands, Third Edition, 2012.
Suggested Computer Programs:
Maple, Mathcad or MATLAB, NONLIN, SEISMOSIGNAL, SAP2000
Course Schedule:
The course lectures will be delivered through one lecture per week on Monday between 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. A detailed schedule of the course, including deliverable deadlines will be posted on Canvas at the start of the course.
Course Mark: 30% mid-term take-home exam, 40% final take-home exam and 30% for a term paper. The mid- term exam will be held during the first week of November, and the final take-home exam will be held during the exam period at the end of the term.
The term paper is due the last day of classes. The projects will be based on chapters 1 to 12 of Chopra’s book.
The practice problems shown on the last page do not need to be handed-in, but can be submitted to the TA for review and marking. Solutions to some of the assigned problems will be discussed in class.