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The course 'Dynamics of Structures' taught by Prof. Manish Kumar at IIT Bombay focuses on the behavior of structures under dynamic loads such as earthquakes and impacts, covering both single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. It includes developing equations of motion, numerical methods for dynamic response, and the application of earthquake response spectra in seismic analysis and design. The course is intended for B.Tech and M.Tech students, as well as industry professionals in structural engineering and related fields.

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The course 'Dynamics of Structures' taught by Prof. Manish Kumar at IIT Bombay focuses on the behavior of structures under dynamic loads such as earthquakes and impacts, covering both single-degree-of-freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. It includes developing equations of motion, numerical methods for dynamic response, and the application of earthquake response spectra in seismic analysis and design. The course is intended for B.Tech and M.Tech students, as well as industry professionals in structural engineering and related fields.

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DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES

PROF. MANISH KUMAR


Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Bombay

PRE-REQUISITES : Basic course in Calculus


INTENDED AUDIENCE : [Link] and [Link] students, Industry professionals engaged with structural design
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : All Structural Engineering firms, Infrastructure and construction,
companies, CPWD, Railways, Defence sector

COURSE OUTLINE :
This course will focus on characterizing the behavior of structures subject to dynamic loads (e.g., earthquake, impact,
blast). Structures would be idealized to simplified single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) and multi-degree-of-freedom
(MDOF) systems. Equation of motion for SDOF systems would be developed for periodic, non-periodic and arbitrary
excitations. The numerical methods to obtain the dynamic response and their limitations would be discussed. The
concept of earthquake response spectrum and design spectrum will be explained and their utility in the seismic analysis
and design of structures would be discussed.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR

Prof. Manish Kumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India. He
obtained his Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from IIT Kanpur, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from State
University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in USA. He has worked in Australia and USA as a civil engineer and is a
certified professional engineer (P.E.) in the state of California, USA. His research areas include analysis and design of
structures subject to earthquake, blast and impact loads. He focusses on seismic response control of structures using
seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices. He has extensive experience in conducting large scale experiments to
characterize static and dynamic behavior of structures. He has authored several technical papers and reports on
dynamic response control of structures. He has also developed several software modules to model seismic isolators in
a wide range of open-source (e.g, OpenSees) and commercial software platforms (ABAQUS, LS-DYNA). His work on
seismic isolation of nuclear structures has contributed to the development of a NUREG guide on seismic isolation. He
has received STSI award by Hokkaido University in Japan and was a visiting research scholar to Beijing University of
Technology. He has delivered several keynote lectures in Indian conferences and workshops in the area of seismic
isolation. His recently lead the efforts organize an US-Indo international workshop on seismic safety of nuclear
structures. He is a currently a working group member of the BIS code committee (CED39) on seismic isolation and
assisting with the efforts to develop codes and guidelines on safety of structures against extreme loads.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 1: Introduction to Dynamics of Structures
Week 2: Free Vibration
Week 3: Forced Harmonic Vibrations
Week 4: Forced Harmonic Vibrations
Week 5: Non-periodic Excitations
Week 6: Numerical Response Evaluations & Earthquake Response Spectra
Week 7: Generalized SDOF systems
Week 8: Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Week 9: Free Vibration of MDOF Systems
Week 10: Forced Vibration of MDOF Systems
Week 11: Seismic Analysis of MDOF Systems
Week 12: Seismic isolation

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