1. EML 4507 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Class time: MWF 3rd period Sect. 16a7 6th period Sect 3258
Classroom: 101 Little Hall
Instructor: Raphael T. Haftka
Office: 220 MAE-A
Office hours: MWF 9th period
Phone:
Also:

2. SYLLABUS Teaching Assistants Textbook: TBA
Introduction to Finite Element Analysis and Design, by N. H. Kim and B. V. Sankar, Wiley, 2008
Required. Available in the University Bookstore

3. GRADES Quizzes Homework Exams
Almost every lecture will have an online quiz associated with it. The quiz can be taken as many times as you wish. You get full credit and a bonus if you do it in the window around the corresponding lecture and 90% in the ‘late’ version that will be posted after the original version expires. The highest grade is retained.
Will need your feedback on quizzes since they are new for me.
Homework
Homework will be mostly ABAQUS software plus hand calculations to verify or check on ABAQUS output.
Exams
Three in-term exams. Optional comprehensive final replaces lowest exam (or missed exam even if it is lower than that exam).
Exams will have only questions taken from the quizzes and quiz-like lecture questions.

4. GRADES Grading Lectures Rules
Exams (45%), Quizzes (40%), Homework (15%)
Lectures
Lectures (PPT or PDF files) will be posted on Canvas and web page with solved Quiz-like questions. If you are familiar with material you can take the quiz before the lecture in order to decide whether you need to attend.
Rules
Since this is a large class, it would be difficult to accommodate individual excuses. Therefore, all the rules will be strictly kept A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- E
100
93.3
89.9
86.6
83.3
79.9
76.6
73.3
69.9
66.6
63.3
59.9
93.4 90
86.7
83.4 80
76.7
73.4 70
66.7
63.4 60

5. Academic Honesty You have signed a statement of academic honesty
You can discuss HWs and quizzes with classmates
HW and Quizzes: each problem must be solved by yourself
I will report all honor code violations to Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution
Violation during exam: Fail the course
Violation in submitted HWs: One letter grade down
Very large discrepancy (>30%) between quiz grades and exam grades will lead to reduced quiz weight in grade calculation.

6. SOFTWARE
We will use a commercial finite element analysis software called “ABAQUS” for homework
Download software from
ABAQUS help from several TAs who are seasoned users.

7. COURSE SCHEDULE 0. Mathematical Preliminaries
1. Stress-Strain Analysis
2. Bar and Truss Finite Elements
4. Beam and Frame Elements
6. Finite Elements for Plane Solids
5. Finite Elements for Heat Transfer Problems
7. Finite Element Analysis Procedure and Modeling
8. Structural Design Using Finite Elements

8. Rest of the lecture
The rest of the lecture is not taken from the textbook, it is just an attempt to acquaint you with the concept and fields of applications of the finite element method.
Look also at Wikipedia’s finite element entry.

9. INTRODUCTION TO FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
What is the finite element method (FEM)?
A technique for obtaining approximate solutions to boundary value problems.
Partition of the domain into a set of simple shapes (element)
Approximate the solution using piecewise polynomials within the element F
Fixed
Structure
Element
Piecewise-Linear Approximation u x

10. INTRODUCTION TO FEM cont.
How to discretize the domain?
Using simple shapes (element)
All elements are connected using “nodes”.
Solution at Element 1 is described using the values at Nodes 1, 2, 6, and 5 (Interpolation).
Elements 1 and 2 share the solution at Nodes 2 and 6.
Elements
Nodes

11. INTRODUCTION TO FEM cont.
Finite element analysis solves for nodal values.
All others can be calculated (or interpolated) from nodal solutions
Displacement within the element
Strain of the element u1 u2 L x N1 N2
Interpolation (Shape) Function

12. INTRODUCTION TO FEM cont.
How to calculate nodal values?
Construct a huge simultaneous system of equations and solve for nodal values.
Different physical problems have different matrices and vectors.

13. EXAMPLE: FINITE ELEMENTS
Plastic Wheel Cover Model
30,595 Nodes, 22,811 Elements
Matrix size is larger than 150,000150,000.
MSC/PATRAN (Graphic user interface)

14. EXAMPLE: AUTOMOTIVE DOOR PANEL STAMPING

15. EXAMPLE: AIRBAG DEPLOYMENT

16. FORGING

17. EXAMPLE: VORTICITY

18. YouTube Videos Two vehicle impact NCAC FEA FEM Downmilling Rolling
Downmilling
Rolling