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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

302862 (v.1) Finite Element Analysis 431

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Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 308803 (v.1) Mechanical Design 337
AND
308814 (v.1) Dynamic Systems 334
Syllabus: Introduction to FEA. Direct method: stiffness matrices for spring element, tensile element and torsion element. Introduction to ANSYS, a general purpose FE package. Applications of the FE package to some common engineering problems. Element assembly and solution for unknowns. Influence of node numbers on element assembly. Programming with Excel. Spring in an arbitrary orientation. 2 D transformation matrix. Direct method: stiffness matrix for a simple plane beam element. Formulation of stiffness matrices using Rayleigh-Ritz method. Interpolation function (or shape function) formulation. Lagrange’s interpolation formula and Hermitian interpolation formula. Finite Element Formulation for an Euler beam element. Higher order beam elements. Mass matrix, mass condensation and Guyan reduction. Finite elements in vibrations. Introduction to isoparametric elements. Finite elements for plates. Gauss quadrature.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External