FUNDAMENTALS OF FINITE ELEMENT

ANALYSIS
ASSIGNMENT -1

NAME: MEHARTHAJ H
ROLL NO: AM17D001
SUBJECT CODE: AM5450
SUBMITTED TO: DR. A. AROCKIARAJAN
DATE: 20.8.2017
1.
1.(i) Plot showing solution of x in each case is shown below

φ(x) vs x
30

25

20

15
φ(x)

10

0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
-5
x
order 1 order 2 order 3

In the above plot, the solution as function of x (at 0 th order

polynomial) is a constant. Hence, the solution φ(x) = constant which
will be a straight along x-axis where constant’s value will be equal to
a0 .
1.(ii) Plot showing the residual function as the function of x in each
case

Residual function,E(x) vs x
15

10
Residual function,E(x)

0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
-5

-10

-15

-20
x
order 0 order 1 order 2 order 3

1.(iii) Plot showing the norm of error vs order of polynomial assumed

Norm of error vs Order of polynomial

20
18
16
Norm of error

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
Order of polynomial
2.
2.(i) Plot showing the solution as function of x(by both discretizing
and non-discretizing using least squares method)

Solution, φ(x) vs x
70

60
Solution, φ(x)

50

40

30

20

10

0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

x
solution with discretization solution without discretization

2.(ii) Plot showing the residual function as the function of x (by both
discretizing and non-discretizing using least squares method)

Residual solution using least square method,

E(x) vs x
10
8
Residual solution, E(x)

6
4
2
0
-2 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

-4
-6
-8
-10
x
residual solution with discretization residual solution without discretization
 From the result obtained, we can clearly observe the sudden rise
in both solution and residual solution at the discretizing point (x=
1.5).
This sudden rise occurs due to discretization of domain into two
elements .This can be rectified by discretizing the domain into more
elements(i.e., 3,4,5 etc..) so that the sudden rise will be minimised at
multiple discretization points and the plot will be nearly same to that
of the solution obtained without discretization.
3.
Assumed material parameters and geometric dimensions are
q = 1800 N/m ; E= 11GPa; L= 1m;
Cross sectional area = 50 x 200 mm2 ; I= 3.33 x 107 mm4
Where q= uniformly distributed load in N/m
E= Modulus of elasticity in GPa
L= length of the beam in metres
I= Area Moment of inertia in mm4
Plot showing the deflection obtained (by different methods) as the
function of x and compared with the analytical solution

w(x) vs x
0.00007

0.00006
defelction, w(x) in metres

0.00005

0.00004

0.00003

0.00002

0.00001

0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2
-0.00001
x
least square point collocation galerkian analytical