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CONSULTING / TRAINING / MANAGEMENT

Lecture #1 -- SDOF

Static and Dynamic Equilibrium; Rotational Properties of Particles and Rigid Bodies; Simplified Stiffness Properties of Lateral Force Resisting Elements
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Lecture #2 -- SDOF

Free Vibration; Damping; Response to Harmonic Loading;    Response to Impulse Loading


Lecture #3 -- SDOF

Response to General Dynamic Loading; The Concepts of Response Spectrum and Design Spectrum


Lecture #4 -- Approximate Analysis by Reduction of MDOF Systems to Equivalent SDOF Systems

The Generalized Coordinates Method; The Rayleigh Method


Lecture #5 -- MDOF

Dynamic Equilibrium of MDOF Systems; Matrix Representation of Mass, Stiffness and Damping; Mode Shapes and Frequencies; Orthogonality of Modes


Lecture #6 -- MDOF

Dynamic Response using Modal Superposition; Earthquake Response History Analysis; Response Spectrum Analysis;    Combination of Modal Responses


Lecture #7 -- Application Examples


Lecture #8 -- Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics


NEES (USA) AND E-Defense (JAPAN) Collaboration on Experimental Research in Earthquake Engineering

instrumentation & Structural Health Monitoring

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StRUCTURAL DYNAMICS

2019 PEER Annual Meeting Keynote address

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