Course structure
Session 1
- Structure vs. Mechanism
- Simulation Process with the FEA
- Verification and Validation of FEA Results
- Discrete and Distributed Systems
- Mode of Vibration
- Modal Analysis
- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- In-class Exercises/Homework Assignment
Session 2
- Modal Analysis
- Convergence of Frequencies
- Rigid Body Modes
- Properties of Lower and Higher Modes
- Modes of Vibration of Single Degree of Freedom Oscillator (1DOF) and Two Degrees of Freedom Oscillator (2DOF)
- In-class Exercises/Homework Assignment
Session 3
- Modal Analysis
- Modeling Techniques in Modal Analysis
- Modes Separation
- Modal Analysis as a Tool to Find “Weak Spots”
- Modal Analysis as a Diagnostic Tool
- In-class Exercises/Homework Assignment
Session 4
- Modal Analysis with Pre-Stress
- Buckling Analysis
- Analogies between Modal Analysis and Buckling Analysis
- Modes of Vibration
- Modal Superposition Method
- In-class Exercises/Homework Assignment
Session 5
- Time Response Analysis
- Load Excitation and Base Excitation
- Impulse Load
- Static vs. Dynamic Response
- Time Response of a 1DOF and 2DOF SystemsTime Response of a Distributed System
- In-class Exercises/Homework Assignment
Session 6
- Frequency Response Analysis
- Steady State Harmonic Response
- Force and Base Excitation
- Resonance
- Modal Damping
- Frequency Response of a 1DOF and 2DOF Systems
- Frequency Response of a Distributed System
- Linear vs. Non-linear Vibration Analysis
- Summary for Post-Course Learning Assessment
Materials Provided
- 90 days of online single-user access (from date of purchase)
- Twelve hours of instructor-delivered content
- Course workbook (downloadable, .pdf\’s)
- The eBook, Vibration Analysis with SolidWorks® Simulation, by Paul Kurowski
- Student license to SolidWorks® Simulation software
- Online learning assessment
- 1.2 CEUs*/Certificate of Achievement (upon completion of all course content and a score of 70% or higher on the learning assessment)
*SAE International is authorized by IACET to offer CEUs for this course.
