Practicum in Finite Elements
These slides are from a course I teach at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The course is taught to junior and senior level engineering students. It is a (very!) applied course in the use of finite element methods for engineering problem solving. It is oriented towards Engineering Mechanics majors and uses ANSYS, a commercial finite element package, to demonstrate the basic principles. We have theory courses that follow this, so the theory in these slides is minimal.
- Introduction
- ANSYS Tutorial
- Units
- Truss Elements
- Trusses in ANSYS
- 3-D Trusses
- Quadrilateral Elements
- Planar Examples
- Another Planar Example
- Axisymmetric Elements
- Axisymmetric Examples
- Coordinate Systems
- More Axisymmetric Examples
- 3-D Elements
- Modeling and Meshing Issues
- More Meshing Examples
- Practice Problems for Workbench
- A Case Study
- Beam Elements
- More on Beams
- Using Beam Sections in ANSYS
- Shell Elements
- A Case Study (Design)
- Normals to Shells
- Thermal Analysis
- Thermal Stresses
- Transient Thermal Analysis
- Plasticity
- Contact Elements
- TransientDynamic