Numerical Methods for

Civil Engineers
Bambang Piscesa, PhD
 Lecturer Profile
Bambang Piscesa, ST (ITS). MT (ITS). PhD (UNSW)
1st Floor Concrete and Building Material Laboratory
Civil Engineering Department
FTSLK – ITS
Email: piscesa@ce.its.ac.id

Google Scholar:
Citation : 531, H-Index : 11, I10-Index : 12

Research Interest :
•Development of constitutive model for concrete material.
•Multi-Scale analysis of reinforced concrete structures.
•Non-linear analysis of reinforced concrete structures.
•Genetic Algorithm optimization of reinforced concrete structures.
•Non-linear behavior of composite structures.
•Non-linear analysis of Strut and Tie Model (STM) for reinforced concrete structures.
 Course Profile
• Total 16 weeks, two meeting each week.
• The course utilizes both hand-solving calculation and computer programming (MatLab/GNU
Octave). Please bring your laptop and calculator during the class. MatLab/GNUOctave must
be installed before class.
• First meeting of each week will discuss the theory and do some sort of simple hand-solving
calculation. The second meeting of each week will involve solving the more sophisticated
problem using both hand-solving and MatLab/GNU Octave. In the second meeting, the
worksheet by hand will be collected to be marked and is worth 15 % of the total marks.
• There will be two QUIZ before and after the mid-term, worth 15 % of the total marks.
• Mid-term and final examinations, each worth 20 % of the total marks.
• So, we have 15%+2x15%+2*20%=85 %. The remaining 15 % is an offline measure of your
computer programming skill before the final examination. The measures will be full offline in
the computer class using an offline PC without an internet connection.
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• Matrix Algebra and Solution of Matrix Equations
Typical Finite Element System of
Linear Equations
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• Exact, Least-Squares, and Spline Curve-Fits
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• Roots of Polynomial and Transcendental Equations
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• Finite Differences, Interpolation, and Numerical Differentiation

See page analysis using finite difference method

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• Numerical Integration and Program Volume
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• Ordinary Differential Equations – Initial and Boundary Value Problems
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• Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Problems
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• Partial Differential Equations
Thank You