Finite Elements Methods

4.0 credits

This course provides a thorough grounding on the theory and application of linear finite element analysis in solid and structural mechanics and related disciplines. Topics: matrix structural analysis concepts and computational procedures, review of linear elasticity, variational methods and energy formulation, weighted residual methods and Galerkin techniques, shape functions based on assumed displacements, isoparametric formulation, FE solution of heat transfer problems, global analysis aspects, error estimation and convergence. MATLAB is used extensively througout the course