Learn global best practice methods for reducing excessive vibrations and understand the limitations on these techniques and when to use each method.
When wind, water, vehicles or earthquakes affect a structure such as a building or tower, the vibrations have the potential to make that structure unsafe. Excessive vibrations can lead to metal fatigue, poor operation of equipment within or on the structure, and even failure of the structure entirely.
This five-day course demonstrates a variety of methods for reducing excessive vibrations and places an emphasis on rotating equipment and foundations, earthquake analysis, blast loads, vibration isolation, structure-fluid systems and flow-induced vibrations. You’ll cover:
- structural vibration fundamentals
- analysis techniques
- synthesis of analysis and test results
- designing for dynamic forces
- applications in residential and commercial buildings and industrial facilities
Several numerical examples and case studies will be used to demonstrate the theory in practice. You’ll also receive a comprehensive set of notes and a textbook as reference materials.
After completing the course you’ll have a better understanding of assumptions and limitations of various analysis techniques and guidelines on when to use which method; natural frequencies of simple and complex structures; structural response to dynamic loads and base excitations.
You’ll also be able to design vibration absorbers, vibration isolators and foundations for rotating equipment, as well as troubleshoot and modify existing structures to reduce unacceptable levels of vibration.
This course is run exclusively by The American Society of Civil Engineers with Engineering Education Australia.
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17 November - 21 November
This course will run on the following dates:
17 – 21 November 2025, 9am – 1:30pm AEDT
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Registrations close three business days before the start of each session.
This course is not eligible for the 15% End of Financial Year (EOFY) discount.
We can customise this course for groups of six or more.
You choose the time, place, duration and format.
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Learning outcomes
- Calculate natural frequencies of simple and complex structures
- Calculate structural response to dynamic loads
- Calculate structural response to base excitations (for example earthquakes)
- Design vibration absorbers (tuned-mass dampers)
- Design vibration isolators
- Design foundations for rotating equipment
- Troubleshoot and modify existing structures to reduce unacceptable levels of vibration
Is this course for you?
You'll benefit from this course if you’re an engineer or an engineering supervisor responsible for designing or qualifying structures and structural components subjected to dynamic forces.
It will also be highly useful if you’re involved in auditing, reviewing or approving vibration analysis tasks, no matter your level of experience.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Topics we'll cover
- Structural vibration fundamentals
- Analysis techniques
- Practical aspects of finite element modelling and analysis of vibration problems
- Modal testing
- Synthesis of analysis and test results
- Structural response to earthquakes
- Representation of base excitation
- Structural response to blast loads
- Floor vibration due to machinery and human activities
- Rotating machinery vibrations
- Soil stiffness
- Vibration absorbers
- Vibration isolators
- Designing for dynamic forces
- Special topics – fluid-structure systems, flow-induced vibrations
- Numerical examples
- Case studies
This course improved my understanding of fluid-structure systems and flow-induced vibration.
The facilitator provided a good run down of technical analysis and the mathematics involved.
C. Raj Sundararajan, Ph.D., M.ASCE has more than 37 years of experience in the analysis and design of structures subjected to dynamic forces. He is President of EDA Consultants (formerly known as Engineering Dynamic Associates). Previously he held senior technical positions at Lummus Company, Foster Wheeler Corporation and Impell Corporation.
Mr Sundararajan has taught short courses for practising engineers for more than 20 years.
He has a B.E. in Civil Engineering from the University of Madras, India, an M.E. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
