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This module will provide you with basic knowledge and understanding relevant to vibration and earthquake engineering of large civil engineering structures. Firstly, very briefly recapped will be key concepts of single- (SDOF) and multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems which form foundations of general structural dynamics for dealing with human-, wind- and earthquake-induced dynamic loading on civil engineering structures. The bulk of the module will then focus on specific problems of environmental vibrations affecting serviceability of structures occupied and dynamically excited by humans (floors, footbridges and grandstands) or by ground borne vibrations due to over and underground traffic, and also crucially due to - earthquakes. Methods and tools used routinely for analysing structures to have satisfactory performance under earthquake and human-induced dynamic loading will be presented and then used by students.

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