ME 271/MATRL 240 STRUCTURAL FINITE ELEMENTS Spring 2006

Date Subject Matter Reading Assgn. Hand in Problems

Tu Apr 4 Introduction 1.1-1.6 1.3-1, 1.3-3(a),(c)

Th Apr 6 Stationary Principles 4.1-4.4 4.2-6, 4.3-4, 4.4-1

Tu Apr 11 The Rayleigh-Ritz Method 4.5-4.9 4.5-5, 4.7-5, 4.8-1(c)

Th Apr 13 Weighted Residual Methods 5.1-5.3 5.1-2, 5.2-3(a),(b),(c), (e),

5.3-2

Tu Apr 18 Galerkin Finite Element Method 5.3-5.5

Th Apr 20 Basic Elements 3.1-3.3 3.1-2, 3.2-5, 3.3-3

Tu Apr 25 Basic Elements 3.4-3.8 3.4-1, 3.5-1, 3.7-1

Th Apr 27 Midterm #1

Tu May 2 One Dimensional Elements 2.1-2.7 2.3-7, 2.5-7

Th May 4 Computational Procedures 2.8-2.12 2.8-7, 2.10-2

Tu May 9 Nodal Loads 3.9-3.14 3.11-7, 3.11-8

Th May 11 Isoparametric Elements 6.1-6.5 6.2-3, 6.2-7, 6.3-7

Tu May 16 Isoparametric Elements 6.10-6.13 6.10-9(a),(b),(d)

Th May 18 Axisymmetric Analysis 14.1-14.5

Tu May 23 Parallel Processing

Th May 25 Midterm #2

Tu May 30 Adaptive Finite Element Meshes 9.1, 9.6, 9.11

Th June 1 Meshless Methods

Tu June 6 Topic Presentations

Th June 8 Topic Presentations

TEXT: Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, Cook, R.D., Malkus, D.S.,

Plesha, M.E., and Witt, R.J., 4^th Edition, 2002, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN: 0-471-35605-0