FEM QUESTIONS

This question paper contains total 15 questions. Total Time: 10 minutes.

1. What type of approximate solution provide by the FEM?
2. Which type of shape function act as an interpolation function?
3. If order of element is four, then how many points you take per element?
4. Give an example of 3D domain.
5. What is Variational method?
6. Primary variables converge ____ as compared to secondary variables.
7. Always the variation of primary variable will be zero at______________________.
8. While discretizing a domain in FEA, minimum error occurs when shape function
is________________________.
9. In finite element analysis over a domain, an interpolation function represents
a__________________.
10. If a domain is discretized in to N linear 1-D elements, then the number of nodes will
be__________________.
11. In a 1-D quadratic element (quad element), how many nodes are present?
12. What does ′w′ represent in the following equation (∫ Error ∗ w dΩ)?
13. In Finite Element Method, assemblage of elements is known as ____.
14. In Finite Element Method, a given domain is subdivided into subdomains called as
_____________.
15. The term "finite element" was first used by _____ in 1960.

Answers

1. Numerical
2. Higher order
3. 5
4. Surface
5. Multiply weighted functions to the residue and integrating the product over the
domain.
6. Faster
7. Boundary location specified
8. Higher order
9. Change in variable over the whole domain
10. N+1
11. 3
12. Weighted function
13. Meshing
14. Elements
15. Ray Clough