Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Time dependent loads, Dynamic characteristics of structural systems, Dynamic systems with discrete parameters, Single and multi degree of freedom systems, Newton laws of dynamics, Equations of motion.
2	Free and forced vibrations of single degree of freedom structural systems, Damping.
3	Damped free and forced vibrations of single degree of freedom structural systems.
4	Measurement and recording of earthquake ground motion, Vibration isolation.
5	Response of single degree of freedom dynamic systems to earthquake ground motion.
6	Generalized single degree of freedom dynamic systems.
7	Response spectra.
8	Undamped free vibrations of multi degree of freedom dynamic systems, Natural modes and natural frequencies of vibrations.
9	Damped forced vibrations of multi degree of freedom dynamic systems, Method of mode superposition.
10	Response of multi degree of freedom dynamic systems to earthquake ground motion.
11	Spectral analysis and modal combination.
12	Numerical methods, Approximate methods for determining natural modes and frequencies, Rayleigh method.
13	Numerical integration in time domain, Newmark method, Finite difference method.
14	Dynamic systems with distributed parameters.