EN.560.630 Structural Dynamics

Department of Civil and Systems Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Describe and model the behavior of objects in motion (think buildings in an earthquake, active control of UAVs, a car skidding around a curve, floating particles) with open-source computational tools.

Lecture Topics:

• Equations of motion, ODE solution
• Damping and energy dissipation
• Harmonic excitation
• Impulse loadings
• Numerical ODE solutions: Central Difference Method, Runge-Kutta
• Earthquake ground motions
• Modeling material nonlinearity
• Vibration mode shapes
• Active control
• System identification