Civil Engineering Department

M.Tech. Structural Engineering (MTSE)

Dynamics of Structure
Assignment 02

1. A two-story building is modeled as 2-DOF system and rigid floors as shown in the Figure 1.
Determine the top floor maximum displacement and base shear due to El-Centro, 1940 earthquake
ground motion using the response spectrum method. Take the inter-story stiffness, k =197.392 ×
103 N/m and the floor mass, m = 2500 kg and damping ratio as 2%.

Figure 1

2. An industrial structure is modeled as 2-DOF system as shown in the Figure 2. Determine the lateral
displacement, base shear and base moment of the structure due to El-Centro, 1940 earthquake
ground motion using the response spectrum method. Take EI =80 × 103 Nm2 , L= 2 m, m1= 100
kg; m2= 200 kg.
 Figure 2
3. A 2-degree-of-freedom system is subjected to horizontal earthquake excitation (Figure 3) with its
response spectra as given below. Take the flexural rigidity, EI = 106 Nm2 and length, L = 2m. Each
lumped mass is 100 kg. Determine the maximum top mass floor displacement and base shear. Take
2% damping in each mode of vibration.

Figure 3
4. Explain the importance of vibrations in the design of structural elements.
5. Write short note on Eigen values and Eigen vectors.
6. Derive the equation of motion for multi degrees of freedom systems. Also investigate the
natural frequencies for the same. (Assume two storey structure for dynamic analysis.)
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