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.