1: Introduction of the FEM and its applications in engineering (3 credit hours)
2: Bar element and truss analysis (3 credit hours)
3: Beam element and frame analysis (3 credit hours)
4: Introduction to ANSYS Classic/Workbench (3 credit hours)
5: Basic element formulations; Interpolations (3 credit hours)
6: Variational methods (4 credit hours)
7: Galerkin and other weighted-residual methods (2 credit hours)
8: Isoparametric elements and computer programing of the FEM (3 credit hours)
9: 2-D/3-D elements for elasticity problems (3 credit hours)
10: Use of ANSYS in solving 2-D/3D elastostatic problems (3 credit hours)
11: Errors in FEM and error estimates; Modeling techniques (3 credit hours)
12: FEM in vibration analysis (3 credit hours)
13: FEM in frequency response analysis (3 credit hours)
14: Use of ANSYS in solving dynamic problems (3 credit hours)
15: FEM in transient response analysis (3 credit hours)
16: Presentations of final projects (3 credit hours)
1. The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals, by O. C. Zienkiewicz, R. L. Taylor, and J.Z. Zhu, 6th
edition, Elsevier, 2005 (PDF copy).
2. 有限单元法,王勖成编著,清华大学出版社,2003.
3. Finite Element Modeling and Simulation with ANSYS Workbench, by Xiaolin Chen and Yijun Liu, CRC Press, 2014
(PDF Lecture slides).