Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction to modal testing
2	Fundamentals of experimental modal analysis
3	Fundamentals of mechanical vibrations
4	Structural dynamic modeling
5	Experimental planning
6	Sensors, measurement chain and data acquisition of vibration signals
7	Processing of vibrations signals, Fourier series
8	Spectral analysis, aliasing and leakage
9	Measurement of frequency response functions
10	Characteristics of frequency response functions
11	Determination of modal parameters: SDOF system approach
12	Peak picking technique, circle fitting method
13	Determination of modal parameters through global methods
14	Applications and project presentations