Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Simo Virtanen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1

Requirements

Exercises, personal exercises and a written examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

Student knows the basic concepts of finite element method and is able to analyse linear static problems of beam, disk, plate and shell structures using computer programmes.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Basic concepts of finite element method of Strength of Materials. Concept of spatial discretation of material domain. Interpolation functions and numerical integration. Different types of elements. Applications to different linear structural problems. Computer programme packages.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Passed written examination or written intermediate examinations and accepted exercises.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Introduction to Finite Elements in Engineering	T., R., Chandrupatla, and A., D., Belegundu			2 nd Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1997.		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	02.07.2008
Modifier	Simo Virtanen