Dynamic Response of Structures
Objectives
Provide doctoral candidates with knowledge of dynamics of structures, to support the doctoral thesis.
Transmit essential concepts regarding the assessment of behavior of structural systems under action of dynamic loads.
Develop the correlation capacity between model and calculation objectives, the model and real behavior of the constituent materials and methods of problem solving
Acquire basic engineering culture in the area of specialization
General characterization
Code
9664
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Ildi Cismasiu
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 28
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
To be admitted to PhD study cylce
Bibliography
Bibliografia fornecida pelo docente em função do tema a desenvolver
Teaching method
Presentation of conceptual material, data distribution and suggestion for further readings.
Regular meetings for discussion of progress and illustration with benchmark problems.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment through weekly meetings between officials and candidates. Evaluation report on overall activities that include the presentation of results for problems suggested.
Subject matter
Modeling of structural response dynamics: continuous systems and discrete. Damping and constitutive laws. Non-linear systems 1 GDL - equations of motion and characterisation. Numerical Integration of equations of motion. Spectra of linear response and importance of ductility.
Spectral modal response. Characterization of dynamic actions: earthquakes, wind, explosion and operation of machines. Special issues: interaction soil-structure; base isolation; vibrations induced by human activities; hydrodynamic action; energy. dissipators
Course structure and content is subject to change
Programs
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