The Structural Dynamics Laboratory for Verification and Validation (LVV) at the University of Sheffield is a major new acoustics and vibration testing facility. The facility will provide a unique research offering to academia and industry. In addition to allowing dynamic testing of full-scale structures in ambient laboratory conditions.

This 12-hour course will cover basic single-degree-of-freedom vibrations, introducing the ideas of natural frequencies, dampings and resonance and will involve some laboratory demonstrations. It will cover multi-degree-of-freedom systems in an intuitive manner, avoiding the use of matrix eigenvalues, but explaining the concept of a mode shape. Some revision of basic engineering mathematics will be given, but the attendees should have a working knowledge of calculus up to elementary differential equations.

Businesses based in the Sheffield city region are eligible to attend.

Agenda

Day 1: Thursday 1st June - lecture based

09:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-12:00 Basic maths - differential equations, matrices

12:00-13:00 Networking lunch

13:00-15:00 Single-degree-of-freedom vibrations, ideas of resonance

15:00-18:00 Frequencies and mode shapes (lab demo on modal analysis)

Day 2: Friday 2nd June - practical based

10:00-12:00 Lab demonstration

12:00-13:00 Networking lunch

13:00-15:00 Problem / tutorial classes

Introduction to Vibration Testing