Course Syllabus

2142212 Dynamics and Vibrations for ADME

1. Course Number 2142212

2. Number of Credit Units 3
3. Course Name Dynamics and Vibrations
4. Faculty Engineering Department Mechanical Engineering
5. Semester second
6. Year 2013
7. Instructor Phongsaen PITAKWATCHARA (PPT) email phongsaen.p@chula.ac.th
8. Conditions
I. Prerequisites 2142211 Mechanical Dynamics
II. Corequisites: None
III. Concurrent: None
9. Course Status required
10. Curriculum Automotive Design and Manufacturing Engineering
11. Level Undergraduate
12. Number of teaching hours per week 3 Day-time Wed. 2-5 p.m.
13. Contents
• Oscillatory motion; Equations of motion of discrete mechanical systems;
• Free responses of one-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems: natural frequency and
modal damping;
• Forced responses of one-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems: frequency response
function, impulse response, and transient response;
• Vibration of multi-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems: natural frequencies, modal
damping, mode shapes, and modal analysis;
• Engineering applications of vibration: rotating machine unbalance, base excitation,
vibration suppression, tuned mass damper, and vibration instruments;
14. Course Details
I. Objectives
1) To develop equations of motion governing vibration of discrete mechanical systems
2) To analyze free vibration of discrete mechanical systems and determine natural
frequencies, mode shapes, and modal damping of such systems
3) To determine forced responses of discrete mechanical systems under various
excitation
4) To apply the fundamental knowledge in vibration to design and analyze vibration
problems for various engineering applications

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 II. Tentative Schedule
Week Contents Notes
1 Jan 29 Introduction of mechanical vibrations
Modeling
• Newton's second law
2 Feb 5 • Equations of motion HW#1
• Equilibrium
3 Feb 12 Free Vibration of Single-Degree-of-Freedom HW#2
Systems
• Free responses of undamped and damped
systems, natural frequency, damping ratio
4 Feb 19 Forced Vibration of Single-Degree-of-Freedom
Systems
• Harmonic excitation
• Frequency response function
5 Feb 26 • Applications (base excitation, rotating HW#3
unbalance, and vibration instrument)
6 Midterm
7 Mar 12 • Periodic excitation HW#4
8 Mar 19 • Non-periodic excitation
9 Mar 26 • Impulse response HW#5
• Arbitrary excitation
10 Apr 2 Vibration of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
• Free and forced vibration
• Natural modes, Eigenvalue problems
11 Apr 9 • Modal analysis HW#6
12 Apr 23 • Modal analysis (continued)
13 Apr 30 • Harmonic excitation HW#7
• Frequency response functions
14 Final
III. Evaluation
1) Homework xx pts
2) Midterm exam 30 pts
3) Final exam 40 pts
IV. Materials
1. Textbook: Inman, D. J., 2007, Engineering Vibration, 3rd ed., Prentice-Hall
Meirovitch, L., 2001, Fundamentals of Vibrations, McGraw Hill
Kelly, G., 2000, Fundamentals of Mechanical Vibrations, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill
2. Software: Matlab
3. Class website: http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~pphongsa/