M.E. 8217 – Random Vibration – was last offered in the Spring 2007 semester. It was offered again in the Fall 2015 semester, however there were not enough students enrolled for the class to be permitted to proceed . The tentative course outline for the Fall 2015 course is provided below.
ME 8217 Course Outline – Fall 2015
| Lecture | Lecture Topics | Lecture Handouts | Lecture Notes | HW Assignments | HW Solutions |
| 1 | Introduction; Aspects of Probability Theory | ||||
| 2 | Probability Theory (continued) | ||||
| 3 | Correlation; Random Processes | ||||
| 4 | Operations on Random Processes | ||||
| 5 | Spectral Density; Wide Band and Narrow Band Processes | ||||
| 6 | Review of Deterministic Theory of Vibrations | ||||
| 7 | Transmission of Random Vibration | ||||
| 8 | Statistics of Narrow Band Processes | ||||
| 9 | Failure Due to Random Vibration | ||||
| 10 | Random Vibration Response of Linear Multi-Degree of Freedom Systems | ||||
| 11 | Random Vibration Response of Linear Continuous Systems | ||||
| 12 | Nonstationary Stochastic Processes | ||||
| 13 | Introduction to Random Vibration of Nonlinear Systems |