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This document introduces finite element analysis by outlining its basic process of dividing a system like a truss into elements connected at nodes, deriving the stiffness matrix and load vector for each element, assembling these components to describe the overall system, applying boundary conditions, and solving the system. It notes that finite element analysis can be applied to different physical systems like trusses, heat conduction, and fluid flow that all share the same fundamental approach of breaking the system into elements connected at nodes.
This document introduces finite element analysis by outlining its basic process of dividing a system like a truss into elements connected at nodes, deriving the stiffness matrix and load vector for each element, assembling these components to describe the overall system, applying boundary conditions, and solving the system. It notes that finite element analysis can be applied to different physical systems like trusses, heat conduction, and fluid flow that all share the same fundamental approach of breaking the system into elements connected at nodes.
This document introduces finite element analysis by outlining its basic process of dividing a system like a truss into elements connected at nodes, deriving the stiffness matrix and load vector for each element, assembling these components to describe the overall system, applying boundary conditions, and solving the system. It notes that finite element analysis can be applied to different physical systems like trusses, heat conduction, and fluid flow that all share the same fundamental approach of breaking the system into elements connected at nodes.
Step 1: Divide the truss into bar/truss elements connected to each other through special points (nodes) Step 2: Describe the behavior of each bar element (i.e. derive its stiffness matrix and load vector in local AND global coordinate system) Step 3: Describe the behavior of the entire truss by putting together the behavior of each of the bar elements (by assembling their stiffness matrices and load vectors) Step 4: Apply appropriate boundary conditions and solve
Heat conduction
Fluid flow
The three systems
have the same basic topology, i.e. the same relationship between nodes and elements.