Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | INTRODUCTION TO FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING | ||||||||||
Course Unit Code | AMEM219 | ||||||||||
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Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||||
Prerequisites | AMEM214,AMAT181 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||||
Course Contents | Types of Statically Indeterminate Structures: Double-Integration Method, Method of Superposition, Moment-Area Method.
Theory and fundamentals of the Finite Element Method: matrix algebra for the problem description, space discretisation, constraints and loads.
Stress and strain tensors: Analysis of stress and strain for linear elastic materials and structures, traction and projection of stress and strain.
Bar and Truss Elements: axial stiffness, nodal displacements and internal forces of springs and bar elements.
Beam Elements: flexural stiffness, nodal displacements and rotations and internal forces and moments in beam elements.
Stiffness Matrix: Assembly method for the setup of the stiffness matrix of whole structural problems for the calculation of nodal displacements and loads (external and internal).
Shape functions: use of shape function for approximating solutions in the finite element analysis.
Application on different examples: the taught aspects in the finite element analysis are applied and demonstrated on specific structural problems
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks. Furthermore theoretical principles are explained by means of specific examples and solution of specific problems.
Lectures are supplemented with computer laboratory work carried out with the supervision of a lab assistant. Here a demonstration of actual problems and computational methods takes place. Additionally, during laboratory sessions, students apply their gained knowledge and identify the principles taught in the lecture sessions by means of working on different modelling tasks and evaluating simulation results.
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Language of instruction | English | ||||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |