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Mechanical Vibrations
University of Galway - Direct Enroll Program
Galway, Ireland
Dates: late Aug 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Mechanical Vibrations
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: University of Galway
Location: Galway, Ireland
Primary Subject Area: Mechanical Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: ME352
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 2.5
Contact Hours: 36
DESCRIPTION
Learning Outcomes
1.Understand the fundamentals of mechanical vibrations and how mechanical vibrations affect design.
2.Develop expressions for and calculate the natural frequencies of components using Newton's second law and energy methods.
3.Derive theoretical models for the response of a system undergoing mechanical vibrations for undamped, under-damped, critically damped and over-damped systems.
4.Investigate system stability and design components to operate away from natural frequencies.
5.Determine the response of a system subjected to harmonically excited vibrations and general forcing conditions.
6.Evaluation of the system response to mechanical vibrations using Laplace transforms to derive the response of a system.
7.Introduction to multi degree of freedom analysis.
8.Implementation of theoretical models for system response in MATLAB.
9.Measurement of mechanical vibrations and component natural frequencies.
1.Understand the fundamentals of mechanical vibrations and how mechanical vibrations affect design.
2.Develop expressions for and calculate the natural frequencies of components using Newton's second law and energy methods.
3.Derive theoretical models for the response of a system undergoing mechanical vibrations for undamped, under-damped, critically damped and over-damped systems.
4.Investigate system stability and design components to operate away from natural frequencies.
5.Determine the response of a system subjected to harmonically excited vibrations and general forcing conditions.
6.Evaluation of the system response to mechanical vibrations using Laplace transforms to derive the response of a system.
7.Introduction to multi degree of freedom analysis.
8.Implementation of theoretical models for system response in MATLAB.
9.Measurement of mechanical vibrations and component natural frequencies.