Course Details

Dynamics of structures

Academic Year 2025/26

DDB035 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DKC-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DPA-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DPC-K Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction. Oscillation of dynamic system with one degree of freedom.
  • 2. Dynamic continuous systems. Traditional solution of the bar and plate rotation.
  • 3. Dynamic systems with various degrees of freedom. Derivation of the mass matrix of the structure.
  • 4. Solving dynamic problems with the use of the Finite Element Method. Types of analyses.
  • 5. Modal analysis. Generalized problem of the eigenvalues. Introduction to the theory of solution.
  • 6. Detail transformation, spectrum separation, QR, QL matrix decomposition, ortogonalization, etc.
  • 7. Subspace iteration, Lancz method. Implementation to programs.
  • 8. Solution of problems in the time period. Method of decomposition according to the proper oscillation shape. Integration of the motion equations. Implicit and explicit procedures of integration.
  • 9. Special types of response. Response to the harmonic excitation, response to the seismic excitation. Linear spectrum of response. Use of the response spectra for the calculation.
  • 10. Generation of the response spectra.
  • 11. Design and evaluation of structures under the effect of the circulating machines.
  • 12. Design and evaluation of structures under the effect of the wind.
  • 13. Introduction to the non-linear dynamics of structures.