Department of Mechanical Engineering (UCL)
MM05/E482: Finite Element Analysis
(Continuum Structures)
Instructor:
Dr. A.V. Salsac (a.salsac@ucl.ac.uk)
Course Syllabus
and Plan
1. Introduction
(week
2)
2. Theory of Finite Elements
(weeks
3 & 4)
3. Plane Problems
(week
5)
4. Isoparametric elements,
Solution techniques (weeks 6 & 7)
5. Modelling, errors and
accuracy
(week
8)
6. Axisymmetric problems
(week
9)
7. Plates
(week
10)
8. Shells
(week
11)
Reference Texts
Cook RD,
Malkus DS, Plesha ME, Witt RJ. Concepts and applications of finite element
analysis. Fourth edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
Cook RD.
Finite element modeling for stress analysis. John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
Course Information
10 lectures
Assessment if by coursework only
for MSc/Dip Marine Engineering, MSc/Dip Mechanical Engineering and all MEng
students. Coursework comprises Assignment 1 (2/3 of marks) and Assignment 2
(1/3 of marks). The combined mark for these two assignments has a weighting of
50% in the overall mark for the MM05/E482 module.
Assessment is by coursework and
one exam question in the Ship Structures paper for MSc Naval Architecture
students. There is only one piece of coursework, referred to as Assignment 1.
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University College London
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MM05/E482: Finite Element Analysis (Discrete
Structures)
Instructor:
Dr. A.V. Salsac (a.salsac@ucl.ac.uk)
Course Syllabus
and Plan
1. Introduction
(weeks 3 &
4)
2. Variational formulation of
beam elements
(weeks 5
& 6)
3. Matrix methods of structural
analysis
(weeks 7 & 8)
Reference Texts
Cook RD,
Malkus DS, Plesha ME, Witt RJ. Concepts and applications of finite element
analysis. Fourth edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
Cook RD.
Finite element modeling for stress analysis. John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
Course Information
5 lectures and 1 tutorial
Assessment is by one exam
question in the Ship Structures paper for MSc Naval Architecture students.