Vibration and noise control
BM BN
H Aziz
4.5 points * 39 lecture hours, 26 laboratory/tutorial hours * Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisites: GEG2723
Vibration: free vibrations of single degree of freedom systems; forced vibration; transmissibility and isolation of vibration; vibration measurement; two degree of freedom systems; determination of natural frequencies and associated mode shapes; equivalent system modelling; multi degree of freedom system; determination of eigenvalue and eigenvectors. Noise control: fundamentals and basic terminology; the human ear; instrumentation for noise measurement and analysis, health aspects of noise, sound sources, sound power; sound in enclosed areas; acoustic enclosures and barriers; muffling devices; sound power and pressure-level estimation procedures.
Assessment
Examination: 50% * Laboratory: 15% * Assignments: 35%
Prescribed texts
Rao S S Mechanical vibrations Addison-Wesley, 1986