TS 4466 Finite Element Method

Department of Civil Engineering, UK Petra

Period : 3-10 March 2017

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1. Write an essay explaining (approx. 500 words):

What is direct stiffness method?
What is finite element method?
What is the correlation between finite element method and direct stiffness method?
Why do you interested to take this course (TS4466 Finite Element Method)? What
do you expect?

2. Watch the video of the Lec-01 and Lec-02 of Prof. R. Krisnakumar on

www.youtube.com (search using keywords Introduction to Finite Element Methods).
Write the applications of the FEM based on these lectures.

3. Divide this equilateral triangle into several quadrilateral elements. You are not allowed
to use a triangular element.

4. Divide this quarter circle into several triangular element.

5. Explain what happened if equation does not have a unique solution? (give some
example).

6. Consider the following three vectors

1/2
Determine whether the vectors are linearly independent.

2/2