Jain A.K. Dynamics of Structures with MatLAB Applications

Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd, 2017. — 673 p. – ISBN: 978-93-325-5855-7.This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking a first course in Dynamics of Structures, Structural Dynamics or Earthquake Engineering. It includes several topics on the theory of structural dynamics and the applications of this theory to the analysis of buildings, bridges, towers and other structures subjected to dynamic and earthquake forces. This comprehensive text demonstrates the applications of numerical solution techniques to a large variety of practical, real-world problems under dynamic loads.
MatLAB is a very powerful and user-friendly software for carrying out solution of extremely complicated mathematical equations with built-in graphic functions. Another very easy and powerful tool is the electronic worksheet such as MS-Excel.The writing of this book was inspired by the following objectives:
to present the subject matter with utmost ease,
to provide necessary and detailed mathematical background,
to introduce more illustrative examples,
to present the subject matter useful to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students,
to introduce MS-Excel and MatLAB,
to introduce nonlinear modelling and analysis,
to introduce special damping devices and their modelling, and
to introduce practical applications useful to practicing engineers.Single degree of Freedom Systems
Introduction to Structural Dynamics.
Single Degree of Freedom System: Free Vibrations.
Single Degree of Freedom System: Harmonic Loading.
Single Degree of Freedom System: Periodic Loading.
Single Degree of Freedom System: Impulse Loading.
Single Degree of Freedom System: Machine Vibrations.
Direct Integration of Equation of Motion.
Elastic Response Spectra.
Multi-degree of Freedom Systems.
Two-degree of Freedom Systems.
Multi-degree of Freedom Systems.
Systems with Distributed Mass and Elasticity.
Application to Earthquake Engineering.
Analysis of Buildings for Earthquake Force.
Nonlinear Analysis of Structures.
Performance-based Seismic Design of Structures.
Wind Load.
Wind Load.
Appendix 1 Measuring Earthquakes: Magnitude and Intensity.
Appendix 2 MatLAB Basics.
Answers to Selected Problems.