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PULLAIAH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

(AUTONOMOUS)

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IV YEAR SEM-1 FINITE ELEMENT METHODS ASSIGNMENT-1

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Part-1

Short questions

Note: Answer any 7 questions

1. State the methods of engineering analysis.

2. What is meant by finite element?
3. What is meant by finite element analysis?
4. What is meant by node or joint in finite element methods?
5. What is the basis of finite element method?
6. Give example of finite elements
7. Explain force and stiffness method?
8. What are the methods are generally associated with finite element methods?
9. What are structural and non structural problems in FEM?
10. What is meant by degrees of freedom?
11. What is aspect ratio and in FEM aspect ratio should be?
12. What is meant by discretization and assemblage?
13. Which principle is used in derivation of general stiffness matrix?
14. If a displacement field in x direction is given by u=2x 2+4y2+6xy. Determine the strain in x-
direction.
Part-II
Long questions
Note : Answer all questions
1. What are the steps involved in FEM and explain briefly?
2. Explain briefly about the potential energy in elastic bodies?
3. Explain the principle of minimum potential energy?
4. What are the merits and demerit of finite element method?
5. Write briefly about Rayleigh-Ritz method?
6. A simply supported beam subjected to uniformly distributed load over entire span.
Determine the maximum bending moment and deflection at mid span by using Rayleigh-Ritz
method and compare with exact solutions (Take two terms in fourier series)
7. A linear elastic spring is subjected to a force of 1000 N as shown in fig below. Calculate the
displacement and the potential energy of the spring.

8. Write briefly about of applications of Finite Element Methods.

9. A simply supported beam subjected to uniformly distributed load over entire span and it is
subjected to a point load at the centre of the span. Calculate the maximum bending moment
and deflection at mid span by using Rayleigh-Ritz method and compare with exact solutions.
(Take only two terms in fourier series)

10. Define plane stress and plane strain with examples and also stress-strain, strain
displacement relationships.