MEL7140 Mechanical Vibrations

Welcome to the course! Please go through the First Course Handout (FCH) to know more about the rules and regulations.

• Course Time Table:  

Lectures:  Tuesday (8:00 AM to 8:50 AM),  Thursday (8:00 AM to 8:50 AM), and Friday (5:00 PM to 5:50 PM)

• Course Content:  

Introduction; Single degree of freedom systems: Undamped free and forced vibration; Types of damping: Viscous, Friction, Hysteretic damping; Damped single degree of freedom: Frequency response, resonance; Beating phenomenon; Vibration under general forcing condition, Duhamel Integral, Vibration measuring instruments, Response spectrum or Shock spectrum, Two-degrees of freedom system, Multi degree of freedom systems; Free vibration of undamped systems: Normal modes ,Orthogonality of modes, Expansion theorem, Modal analysis Vibration control: Vibration isolation, vibration absorber String and beam vibration, Vibration of rotating shafts and critical speeds.

• Reference Books:

1.  Rao, S.S., 2011. Mechanical Vibrations, prentice Hall. Indianapolis, IN.

2. Craig Jr, R.R. and Kurdila, A.J., 2006. Fundamentals of structural dynamics. John Wiley & Sons.

3. Inman, D.J. and Singh, R.C., 1994. Engineering vibration (Vol. 3). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

4. Bottega, W.J., 2014. Engineering vibrations. Crc Press.  

5. Kelly, 2012. Mechanical vibrations: theory and applications. Cengage learning.

6. Thomson, W.T., 1993. Theory of vibration with applications. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report A, 93, p.39794.

7. Weaver Jr, W., Timoshenko, S.P. and Young, D.H., 1991. Vibration problems in engineering. John Wiley & Sons.

8. French, A.P., 2017. Vibrations and waves. CRC press.

9. Meirovitch, L., 2010. Fundamentals of vibrations. Waveland Press.

• Course Evaluation (Credits: 03):

40%: Major Examination                        25%: Minor Examinations                   35%: In-semester quizzes/assignments/project

• Homework Assignments: