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This chapter presents an overview of energy response spectra and their application to single and multi-degree-of-freedom systems. The energy response spectrum falls into the group of analysis approaches called energy methods. The basis for energy methods is conservation of energy. Conservation of energy requires that all of the energy input to a structure be absorbed, dissipated, or converted to kinetic energy. The civil engineering community, specifically the earthquake engineering community, uses energy methods for analyzing the damage potential to structures from earthquakes. However, energy methods can provide insight into how any structure might fail when subjected to shock loading.
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Sisemore, C., Babuška, V. (2020). Energy Spectra Methods. In: The Science and Engineering of Mechanical Shock. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12103-7_12
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