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Much of modern engineering involves structures that move or have parts which move, e.g. automotive/aerospace structures, gas turbines used to propel aircraft or rotating components in machine tools. Predicting and avoiding their dynamic structural failure is at the heart of engineering design.

This module explores techniques for analysing how structures respond to dynamic loading and how they can be designed to avoid adverse effects. The module will initially consider relatively simple structures with one or two degrees of freedom, and then move on to numerical techniques for more complex structures. It will also cover some techniques for vibration measurement, data analysis and will then focus you on specific problems of environmental vibrations affecting serviceability of structures occupied and dynamically excited by humans and underground traffic.

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