Computational Solid Mechanics detailed syllabus for Mechanical & Automation Engineering (MAE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MAE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Mechanical & Automation Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MAE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to MAE Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of computational solid mechanics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
BASIC ON THEORY OF ELASTICITY 9
Definitions- notations and sign conventions for stress and strain, Equations of equilibrium. Strain -displacement relations, Stress – strain relations, Lame’s constant -cubical dilation, Compressibility of material, bulk modulus, Shear modulus, Compatibility equations for stresses and strains, Principal stresses and principal strains, Mohr’s circle, Saint Venant’s principle.
Unit II
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR STATIC LINEAR ELASTICITY 9
Derivation and implementation of a basic 2D FE code with triangular constant strain elements. Generalization of finite element procedures for linear elasticity: interpolation and numerical integration in 1D, 2D and 3D. Deriving finite element equations – constructing variational forms; mixed methods. Accuracy and convergence; the Patch test.
Unit III
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Unit IV
TIME DEPENDENT AND DYNAMIC PROBLEMS 9
First-order systems – the diffusion equation – Explicit time integration – the Newmark method – Implicit time integration – Modal analysis and modal time integration.
Unit V
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS & INTERFACES AND CONTACT 9
Continuum Beams – Shells – Cohesive Zones – Enforcing constraints using penalty methods and Lagrange Multipliers – Contact elements (in two dimensions)
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
- Discuss the definition and basics on theory of elasticity
- Derive the finite element method for static linear elasticity, solve problems.
- Discuss the Non Linear and History depend problems, Solve problems.
- Discuss time dependent and dynamic problems, solve problems.
- Discuss Structural Elements & Interfaces and contact, solve problems.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- The Mechanics of Solids and Structures – Hierarchical Modeling and the Finite Element Solution (Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics)by Miguel Luiz Bucalem and Klaus-Jurgen Bathe | 25 February 2013
- The Finite Element Analysis of Shells – Fundamentals (Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics)by Dominique Chapelle and Klaus-Jurgen Bathe | 27 January 2013
- Inelastic Analysis of Solids and Structures (Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics)by M. Kojic and Klaus-Jurgen Bathe | 22 October 2010
- High-Resolution Methods for Incompressible and Low-Speed Flows (Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics)by D. Drikakis and W. Rider | 22 October 2010
- Discontinuous Finite Elements in Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics)by Ben Q. Li | 22 October 2010
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