1-DOF|2-DOF|N-DOF PROBLEMS|FREE AND FORCED VIBRATIONS|DAMPING|NATURAL FREQUENCIES AND MODE SHAP

This course teaches the fundamentals of structural dynamics for civil engineers. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject but requires a confident...

This course teaches the fundamentals of structural dynamics for civil engineers. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject but requires a confident background in structural mechanics (statics) and maths. It starts with describing and predicting the dynamic behaviour of single degree of freedom systems with or without damping. Free and forced vibration will be covered. The case of earthquake loading will also be treated: linear and nonlinear time history analysis will be introduced and treated as well as the concept of response spectrum. Single degree of freedom concepts will then be generalised to multi-degree-of-freedom system using matrix and eigenvalues methods. General notions on damping devices and base isolation will be introduced.

Learning Outcomes

Modelling and predicting the linear response of single degree of freedom systems to free and forced vibration
 Free and forced response of multiple degree-of-freedom systems
 Use and understanding the concept of modes, mode shapes, modal superposition, Rayleigh quotient
 Earthquake excitation of SDoF systems
 Linear and nonlinear response
 Integration schemes
 FE modelling

Summary 

This course will provide an overview of clinical cardiology sub-specialties. The sub-specialties covered will include general cardiology, coronary...

Summary 

This course will provide an overview of clinical cardiology sub-specialties. The sub-specialties covered will include general cardiology, coronary intervention (ischaemic and structural heart disease), electrophysiology, grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH), inherited cardiac disease, heart failure, cardiac surgery and cardiac imaging (echo, nuclear, MRI, CT). This is an academically orientated module which aims to show how scientific discoveries have been and are being translated into clinical practice.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes: 

By taking this module, you should be able to:

Understand contemporary clinical cardiology practice in the UK
	Learn how scientific discoveries have been translated into patient care
	Develop detailed knowledge of one specific topic in clinical cardiology
Who is this module for? 

This module is open to UCL MSc Cardiovascular Science students who are training as or who have completed training as medical doctors. Other allied health professionals will be considered on an individual basis for suitability for the module.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Topics will be delivered via live virtual tutorials with a clinician, recorded lectures on core topics and and self-directed learning.

Selected Reading List

Camm AJ, Lüscher TF and Serruys PW (Eds) 2009. The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (2nd edn). New York: Oxford University Press Inc / European Society of Cardiology

Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, Bonow RO, Braunwald E (Eds) 2015. Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (10th edn). Philadelphia PA: Elsevier Saunders

 