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Course Name	Turkish	Deprem Mühendisliğinde Deneysel Yöntemler
	English	Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering
Course Code	DEP 603E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Barlas Özden Çağlayan
Course Objectives		1) To teach the students the fundamentals of vibrations theory for structural systems. 2) To help students to be aware of dynamic behavior of structures under dynamic loads. 3) To give information about structural damages under dynamic loads and experimental techniques to verify the damage position in structure and its severity.
Course Description		Fundamentals of vibrations. Classification of vibrations and analysis procedures. Free and forced vibration of single and multi degree of freedom systems. Fourier series expansion, fast Fourier transform. Determination of natural frequencies and mode shapes, vibration measurements and applications. Instrumentation, data acquisition systems. Digital signal processing, windowing, filtering. Modeling, model refinement. Structural damages and identification procedures.
Course Outcomes		Graduate and PhD students who successfully pass this course gain knowledge, skills and competency in the following : 1) How to use vibration theory principles in experimental methods, 2) Instruments, instrumentation, data acquisition systems, 3) Processing of field gathered vibration data, filtering windowing, 4) Response of structure under dynamic loads, 5) Modeling and model updating (refinement), 6) Structural damages, experimental damage detection techniques.
Pre-requisite(s)		To have a certain level of knowledge about matlab and programming
Required Facilities		Matlab installed computer.
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