2.003SC | Fall 2011 | Undergraduate

Engineering Dynamics

Vibration of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems

Dealing with damping in modal analysis

Description: Prof. Vandiver goes over the modal expansion theorem, computing mass and stiffness matrices, obtaining uncoupled equations of motion, modal initial conditions, damping in modal analysis, Rayleigh damping, and experimental fitting of damping ratios.

Instructor: J. Kim Vandiver

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