STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS THEORY AND COMPUTATION Updated with SAP2000

The analysis and design of structures to resist the effect produced by time dependent forces or motions requires conceptual idealizations and simplifying assumptions through which the physical system is represented by an idealized system known as the analytical or mathematical model. These idealizations or simplifying assumptions may be classified in the following groups;

Material assumptions

Loading assumptions

Geometric assumptions

Contents of the Book

Part I Structures Modeled as a Single-Degree-of-Freedom System

Part II Structures Modeled As Shear Buildings

Part III Framed Structures Modeled As Discrete Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems

Part IV Structures Modeled with distributed properties

Part V Special Topics: Fourier Analysis, Evaluation of Absolute Damping, Generalized coordinates

Part VI Random Vibration

Part VII EarthQuake Engineering

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