CE 696DV Advanced Topics in Finite Elements
This is a variable credit course with each student selecting
the amount of material he/she intends to study. Registered
audits are welcome. It will
consist primarily of the study of constitutive equations used
to model various materials, and the incorporation of these
equations into finite element codes. A large component of
the course will be self-study; however, the group will meet
one hour a week for discussion and some lecture material.
Later in the semester, these meeting may be less frequent
as each student seeks out his/her own area of study.
The prerequisite for the course is a theoretical and
practical understanding of the finite element method such
as can be obtained in CE665. The basic programming
language will be MATLAB script, although students are
free to use whatever language they desire.
The topics to be covered include:
- Thermal stresses in linear elastic solids
- Nonlinear elastic materials
- Creep
- Plasticity
- elastic, visco-plastic
- elastic, ideal-plastic
- Visco-elastic solids
- Incompressible materials
- Introduction to steady state, nonNewtonian flow.
- Introduction to geometrical nonlinear problems