• Direct stiffness method. Application to truss structures. Tension/compression beam. Solution of truss structures. Variational formulation of tesion/compression beam.
• Variational formulation of beam loaded in bending. Beam with shear effects (Timoshenko). Beam on elastic foundation (Timoshenko-Winkler). Beam loaded with M+N+T combination.
• Isoparametric elements. Natural coordinates.
• Isoparametric elements. Triangular and quadrilateral elements. Linear and quadratic elements T3 and T6, Q4 and Q8. Plane stress, plane strain.
• Plane deformation, plane strain. Elements for plane problems.
• Plane strain, plane strain. Derivation of element stiffness matrix.
• Spatial elements. Summary of 2D and 3D elasticity in FEM. Use of symbolic algebra tools.
• Linear dynamics and FEM. Hamilton's variational principle. Consistent and diagonal mass matrices. Solutions for natural shapes and natural frequencies solution.
• Direct time integration of equations of motion. Implicit and explicit methods. Newmark's method.
• Numerical integration. Solution of nonlinear problems.
Calendars at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences, CTU in Prague