Course Learning Outcomes
- Analyze static truss, beam, frame systems using general stiffness and direct stiffness method.
- Apply energy principles to basic structures using the Minimum Potential Energy Principle and the concept of Virtual Work and Deformations.
- Develop approximate solutions for 2nd order ordinary differential equations using Ritz method.
- Solve second order ordinary differential equations using finite element method.
- Develop and evaluate isoparametric element equations in the natural coordinate system.