Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Characteristics of dynamic problem, method of discretization,
2	Single degree-of freedom systems, undamped free vibrations
3	Vibration of rigid assemblages having one degree-of-freedom, damped free vibrations, critically damped systems.
4	Under critically damped systems, harmonic and periodic excitation Response to impulsive loading
5	Response to general loading, response to periodic loading, Rayleigh’s method
6	Newmark’s method
7	Multi-degree-of-freedom systems, undamped free vibration, mode shapes.
8	Forced vibrations, modal superposition, Rayleigh’s method, Stodola method
9	Static condensation, Center of rigidity, damping matrix.
10	Distributed-parameter-systems, bending vibrations.
11	Earthquake motions
12	Single-degree-of-freedom-systems, spectra
13	Multi-degree-freedom-systems
14	Method of modal superpositions