C&EE 239

Elementary Structural Dynamics

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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(Formerly numbered C239.) Basic structural dynamics course for civil engineering students. Elastic free and forced vibrations of single degree of freedom systems, introduction to response history and response spectrum analysis approaches for single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Axial, bending, and torsional vibration of beams.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Recommended requisite: course 135B.

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C&EE 135B

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C&EE 239

C&EE 135BIntermediate Structural Analysis
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
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