Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Department of Civil Engineering

Autumn Semester 2016-2017

CE 616 Structural Dynamics

Homework No. 4
August 19, 2016

Express the periodic loading shown below as a Fourier series and determine its constants.
Also find the response of a one-storey damped building frame idealised as shown below,
with = 6 rad/s and m = 1 kg. Take = 0.05. Determine the response of the SDOF
structure for t = 0 to 6 sec when the first 10 terms of the Fourier series is used (n=10).
2 sin 5 t
f (t )
0
Comment on your results.

f(t)

k/2

0 t 0.4 sec
0.4 t 0.6 sec

k/2

(The homework should be hand-written, and the solution along with computer program
listing, if any, and graphs should be scanned and submitted on moodle in a single pdf
file.)
[Due on August 27, 2016]