This course is designed to help students understand and master the fundamental ideas and methods FEM. After taking this course, students should be able to realize the basic solution process by independent programming, and be able to simulate and solve practical problems on platform of commercial software of FEM, which will help them to understand and master FEM more profoundly. The main contents are: Introduction to FEM, Differential and variational descriptions of elasticity with tensor, Weighted Residual Methods and Variational Methods, Basic principles of FEM for analysis of bar-beam structures, Basic principles of FEM for analysis of continuum structures, Realization and characteristic of common elements, Basic numerical methods in FEM, Architecture of FEM procedures and independent development, Applications of FEM, Latest progresses of FEM.
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