ME 549/CE 546 – Finite Element Analysis

· Course description: To familiarize the student with the procedures for solving differential equations using finite element methods. (3 credits)

· Prerequisites: ME 341 – Intermediate Mechanics of Materials or CE 342 – Theory of Structures.

· Syllabus

· Examples of Fortran 90 programs:

- matrix operations code and its output

- matrix inverse

- using a subroutine

- allocatable matrix

· Segments of my Fortran truss code

- code to transfer data from a file to a matrix: file-to-matrix

- code to compute the global stiffness matrix: global-stiffness

- code to shuffle the lines and columns of the global stiffness matrix: K-matrix-shuffle

- utility subroutines

· Homework 1-solutions

· Homework 2-solutions

· Homework 3-solutions

· Homework 4 –solutions

· Project 1 - solution

· Exam 1 - solutions

· Final exam - solutions