NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY Name:______________

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Date:_______________

MCEE707 / DCEE759 Spring 2022 – HOMEWORK #2

(Due Feb. 19, 2024 – 9:00 am)

PLEASE ADHERE TO THE HOMEWORK GUIDELINES POSTED ON MOODLE AND IN THE

SYLLABUS.

Part 1

For this part you can use FEMA’s NonLin (Version 8.0) program or MATLAB.
In this analysis you will be working with a single degree of freedom system, with a weight of 100 kips,
stiffness of 400 kips/in.

- Free Vibrations:
a) Undamped Response:
Compute the circular frequency, natural frequency and natural period.

b) Damped Response:
Plot the displacement time history assuming an initial displacement of 3 in and 5 in, initial velocity of
1 in/sec and 5% damping. Choose the scale to clearly show the vibratory motion. Compare with
undamped response.

Part 2

Choose two reading materials and summarize them in a corresponding page (Maximum one page for
each paper)

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