Creating an Experimental Structural Dynamics Laboratory on a Shoe-string Budget

摘要

Educating architectural engineers in aspects of structural dynamics is essential. When architectural engineering students graduate and enter the workforce they will be faced with analyzing and designing a variety of structural systems. Oftentimes in the workplace, sophisticated analytical models are created to model the dynamic response of buildings subjected to dynamic loading. Commonly, these models rely on the modal superposition method resulting in natural frequencies and modes shapes. The objective of the course is to enhance student learning with student-led experimentation that complements the normal theoretical textbook material and homework.