| Date | Lecture | Tutorial |
|---|---|---|
| September 29 | Dean's day | Dean's day |
| October 6 | Introduction to FEM, Overview of Direct Stiffness Method - 1D Elasticity | Introduction to Programming - Matlab, Octave, Excel; Localization |
| October 13 | Strong and Weak Forms, Weighted Residual Method, Lagrange Principle | 1D Elastic Element: Localization, Benchmarks |
| October 20 | Aproximation Functions and Numerical Integration - Gauss Quadrature, Finite Elements | 2D Trusses |
| October 27 | Finite Element Formulation for One-Dimensional Problems - Linear Elasticity | Linear and Quadratic Bar Elements, Gauss Quadrature, Natural Coordinates |
| November 3 | Finite Element Formulation for One-Dimensional Heat Conduction Problems | 1D Heat Conduction |
| November 10 | Finite Element Formulation for One-Dimensional Nonstationary Heat Conduction Problems | 1D Nonstationary Heat Transfer |
| November 17 | Public holiday | Public holiday |
| November 20 | Two-Dimensional Heat Conduction Problems | 2D Heat Conduction |
| November 24 | Finite Element Formulation for Two-Dimensional Problems - Linear Elasticity | 2D Problems - Plane Stress and Plane Strain Problems |
| December 1 | Mid-term test | 2D Problems - Plane Stress and Plane Strain Problems |
| December 8 | Finite Element Formulation for Beams | Beams |
| December 15 | Numerical Aspects of FEM I | Beams |
| December 22 | Numerical Aspects of FEM II | A posteriori Error Estimation |
