Finite Elements Modeling – Trento

• Teaching material (mandatory for preparation)
• Lecture slides, systematically covering the course contents
• Additional materials uploaded to Moodle (numerical examples, commented exercises, datasets, FEM input files).
• All materials will be made available through the University’s e-learning platform.
• Additional materials uploaded to Moodle (numerical examples, commented exercises, datasets, FEM input files).All materials will be made available through the University’s e-learning platform.

Argomenti del programma: The course is structured into the following modules: 1. Introduction to FEM and Variational Principles - Motivation for numerical discretization - Weighted residual methods - Principle of minimum potential energy - Weak form of the governing equations of mechanics 2.