README.md

MCHE485: Mechanical Vibrations

This repository contains code used during the Spring 2020 semester of MCHE485: Mechanical Vibrations at UL Lafayette. It will contain Python code, Jupyter Notebooks, supporting data, and LaTeX templates.

For more information see: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jev9637/MCHE485.html

Core Topic Jupyter Notebooks

• Introduction

• Free Vibration

• Interactive Free Vibration

• Step Inputs

• Undamped Seismic Harmonic Inputs

• Undamped Direct-Force Harmonic Inputs

• Transfer Function Introduction

• Force Inputs with Damping

• Seismic Inputs with Damping

• Rotating Imbalance

• Dry Friction

• Direct-Force Pulse Input to Mass-spring-damper System

• Mass-Spring-Damper with Multiple Inputs

• Fourier Analysis

• Interactive Fourier Analysis

• Symbolic Fourier Analysis

• Introduction to the FFT

• Interactive FFT

• Eigenvalues/Eigenvectors

• Vibration Absorbers

• Multi-DOF Example

• "Zeros" in a Forced Response

• Modal Damping Approximation

Licenses

Code is licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license. See the licenses/LICENSE.md file.

Other content is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, CC-BY-NC 4.0.