Welcome to NESC Shock & Vibration Course Units

By Tom Irvine
Email: tirvine@dynamic-concepts.com

Two equivalent versions are offered for each unit:

1.  Adobe Presentation, pdf format
2.  PowerPoint, pptx format

The *.zip files in the following links also contain software and data samples.

In addition, each file contains an audio narration.

Additional units will be added on a weekly basis.

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Many of the following files are large, with some ~ 40 Mb.  So do a right mouse click on each link.  Then "Save Target or Link as"

Unit

Adobe Presentation

PowerPoint

0

Introduction
Unit_Intro_PP

1

Natural Frequencies (pending)
 

1c

Bridge Natural Frequencies
Unit_1c_PP

1d

Building Natural Frequencies
Unit_1d_PP

1e

Helicopter Forcing Frequencies
Unit_1e_PP

2

Sine Vibration
Unit_2_PP

3

Sine Sweep Vibration
Unit_3_PP

4

Random Vibration
Unit_4_PP

5

Nonstationary Random Vibration, Skewness, & Kurtosis Unit_5_PP

6a

Fourier Transforms: ApplicationsUnit_6a_PP

6b

Waterfall FFTUnit_6b_PP

10b

Electronic Component FatigueUnit_10b_PP

13

Synthesizing a Time History to Satisfy a Power Spectral Density using Random VibrationUnit_13_PP

16

Sample Rate & Nyquist FrequencyUnit_16_PP

17

Aliasing Errors in Signal AnalysisUnit_17_PP

21

Shock Response Spectrum Classical PulsesUnit_21_PP
22aShock Response Spectrum Seismic PulsesUnit_22a_PP

22b

Wavelet Synthesis to Satisfy an SRSUnit_22b_PP

22c

Damped Sine Synthesis to Satisfy an SRSUnit_22c_PP
26Isolation_DampingUnit_26_PP

33

Digitizing PlotsUnit_33_PP

Full set of Matlab scripts including Updates: Matlab_scripts.zip
Additional Materials (will be covered in future Units).
Generalized Eigen Problem using LAPACK in C/C++ environment:
LAPACK_files.zip

Generate Non-Gaussian White Noise Time Histories

User selects standard deviation and kurtosis. Skewness is zero.white_kurtosis.m

User selects standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis
white_kurtosis_skewed.m

progressbar.m

Modal Transient Analysis of a Multi-degree-of-freedom System with Enforced Motion:
modal_enforced_motion.pdf

Matlab scripts:
enforced_displacement.m

enforced_acceleration.m

Generalized_Eigen.m

Frequency Response Function Analysis of a Multi-degree-of-freedom System with Enforced Motion:
FRF_enforced_motion.pdf

Matlab scripts:
enforced_acceleration_frf.m

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