Class Thursday, 15-18, Wolfson 238
Instructor
Isaac Harari
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office: Wolfson 225, (640-)9439
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hours: Thursday, 14-15 (or by appointment)
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e-mail:
harari AT eng.tau.ac.il
Topics Linear, static finite element analysis:
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Basic concepts, simple model.
Formulation of finite element equations.
Interpolation, isoparametric elements, element matrices.
Computer implementation, data processing arrays.
Mathematical theory, error estimates.
Mixed problems, reduced and selective integration.
Book
Hughes,
The
Finite Element Method, Dover, 2000
(DLEARN,
FEM_Object).
References
(
marks
Neiman Library holdings)
Bathe,
Finite
Element Procedures,
Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Brenner
& Scott,
The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods, 2nd Ed.,
Springer, 2002.
Cook,
Malkus,
Plesha,
& Witt,
Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, 4th Ed.,
Wiley, 2002.
(Warning: the computed answer may be wrong)
Johnson,
Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential
Equations by the Finite Element Method, Cambridge, 1987.
Strang &
Fix,
An Analysis of the Finite Element Method, 2nd Ed., Wellesley-Cambridge, 2008.
Szabó
& Babuska,
Finite Element
Analysis, Wiley, 1991.
Zienkiewicz
& Taylor,
The Finite Element
Method, Vol. 1, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
(FEAPpv).
Grading
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Homework (to final) 0%
Computer
assignments
(required)
0%
No. 1: DLEARN examples 1, 2
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Project (50%)
Final 100%
Online Resources
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Ariane 5
rocket (YouTube).
Course
mailing list
<0540-6408-01@listserv.tau.ac.il>.
Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Wiley 2007.
FEniCS translates
scientific models into finite element code.
Israel
Association for Computational Methods in Mechanics
(IACMM-L).
Matlab
Implementation of the Finite Element Method in Elasticity
(Computing 69 (2002) 239).
Northridge
earthquake animations
(video).
Numerical Computing with
MATLAB (electronic book).
Numerical recipes, on-line books and
software.
Research Trends in Computational Mechanics (2000), J.T. Oden (Ed.).
Sleipner
A offshore platform sunk due to incorrect finite element analysis.
Wikipedia FE page.
Wind turbine
fluid-structure interaction from Acusim.
Writing guidelines
for engineering and science students.