Prerequisites:

1) ME455/555 (or equivalent introductory Finite Element Analysis class)

2) Ability to use a Finite element Analysis program.

 Instructor:

• Dr. Hormoz Zareh, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Contact information

Please see the contact page for office hours and contact information.

Textbook and Lecture Notes:

There is no textbook assigned for this course. However, class lecture notes will be posted on the web page. Homework and exam projects will be posted as well.

Topical outline:

1) Overview of Introductory finite element analysis

2) Plates and Shell problems

3) Non-linear static analysis (Material and Geometric nonlinearities)

4) Buckling Analysis

5) Advanced Vibration Analysis (Response Dynamics, Base motion)

5) Gap and Contact problems

6) Transient heat transfer

7) Explicit method (contact, quasi-static, impact)

7) Additional modeling topics (mixed elements, bolted connections, etc.)

Homework Submission guidelines:

1)      Entire homework set must be submitted as one (single) PDF file

2)      Only PDF format will be accepted and graded. Other formats (including JPEG images) will be ignored and will not be graded.

3)      Use the following naming convention for homework:

 Last-name_First-name_HWxx   (where xx indicates the set number).    For example: Smith_Jane_hw2.PDF

4) If you revise your submission send a message from D2L alerting the grader about the changes.

 Graduate students will be required to work on an extra project, to be determined sometime after the midterm.