AGNEL CHARITIES’

FR. C. RODRIGUES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VASHI

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS LAB
Course Name/Course code: Finite Element Analysis Lab/MEL 603

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS/PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Experiment CO
Problem Statement
No. Covered

Determine the Nodal Displacement, Stress in each element, Reaction

1 CO 1
forces in a bar of Constant Cross-section Area.
Determine the Nodal Displacement, Stress in each element, Reaction
2 CO 1
forces in a bar of Tapered Cross section Area or a stepped bar.
Determine the stress in each element, Reaction forces, Nodal
3 CO 2
displacement in a four bar truss.
Determine the stress in each element, Reaction forces, Nodal
4 CO 2
displacement in a bridge truss.
Determine the maximum stress distribution along any one line in the
5 plane of the plate with a hole in the centre and the deformed shape of CO 3
the hole.
Compute Maximum displacement, Von-Mises stress in the corner
6 angle bracket constrained at one end by a pin hole and loaded with CO 3
tapered pressure load at the bottom of a pin hole at the other end.
Determine the axial and hoop stresses in a cylindrical wall using
7 CO 4
axisymmetric elements.
Determine the axial and hoop stresses in a long cylindrical pressure
8 CO 4
vessel using axisymmetric elements.
Conduct a harmonic forced response test by applying a cyclic load
9 (harmonic) at the end of the beam. The frequency of the load will be CO 5
varied from 1 - 100 Hz.

Determine the temperature distribution and heat flux in a composite

10 wall of taking in account the effects of convection on either side of the CO 6
wall and contact resistance at the interfaces.

Mr. Afzal Ansari

(Subject Teacher)
 AGNEL CHARITIES’
FR. C. RODRIGUES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VASHI
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS LAB
Course Name/Course code: Finite Element Analysis Lab/MEL 603

Course Outcomes (COs)

Learner will be able to...

CO-ID CO-Statement
CO1 Solve problems of bar element using a commercial software package
CO2 Solve problems of truss element using a commercial software package
Solve problems of constant strain triangular element using a commercial
CO3
software package
Solve problems of axisymmetric element using a commercial software
CO4
package
Analyze the problems of forced vibration using bar element on a
CO5
commercial software package
Solve the problems of heat transfer taking the effects of conduction,
CO6
convection and contact resistances using a commercial software package

Assessment Tools for Lab

Performance Assessment Tools
Course Practical problems Theoretical
Outcomes using ANSYS and VIVA
related to the
solution of the Course Project
problems problems

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CO 2   

CO 3  

CO 4  

CO 5  

CO 6  

Mr. Afzal Ansari

(Subject Teacher)
 AGNEL CHARITIES’
FR. C. RODRIGUES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, VASHI
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS LAB
Course Name/Course code: Finite Element Analysis Lab/MEL 603

Mr. Afzal Ansari

(Subject Teacher)