ME458 - BME487 NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
COURSE DESCRIPTION

The theory and application of nonlinear finite element analysis in solid and biosolid mechanics.  Topics: review and generalization of FE concepts, review of solid mechanics, nonlinear incremental analysis, displacement based FE formulation for large displacements and large strains, nonlinear constitutive relations, incompressibility and contact conditions, rubberlike materials, biomechanical materials, solution methods, element libraries.

 

INSTRUCTOR: Prof. RENATO PERUCCHIO
Hopeman 415, tel. X5-4069
e-mail: rlp@me.rochester.edu
office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 14:30 - 15:30  or by appt.

MEETING TIMES

We expect all students to attend lectures  regularly. 
Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 -13:45, in Gavett 301.

 
TEXTBOOK
There  is no textbook. Relevant material from Bathe will be posted electronically for downloading.


 BOOKS ON 2-hr RESERVE AT CARLSON
K-J Bathe, Finite Element Procedures, Prentice Hall 1996 .
R.D.Cook, D.S. Malkus, M.E. Plesha, R.J. Witt, Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis,
fourth edition, Wiley, 2001.
R.D.Cook, D.S. Malkus, M.E. Plesha, Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis,
3rd ed., Wiley, 1989.
I.H. Shames and C.L. Dym, Energy and Finite Element Methods in Structural Mechanics, Taylor and Francis, 2003.
J. Bonet and R.D. Wood, Nonlinear Continum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1997

 Other books will be added to the reserve list later in the semester.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

PREREQUISITES : ME441 (or equivalent) or consent of instructor.

REQUIREMENTS:  Homework sets, two midterm exam, term project.


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