APPLIED MECHANICS USING FEM

Štefan Benča
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava

Introduction

Relations between displacement and deformation

Stress. Differential equations of equilibrium. Principle of virtual displacements

Numerical (iterative) solution of nonlinear equations

Plane truss element for large displacements and rotations

Slender beam element for large displacements and rotations

Beam instability and stress stiffening

Finite element formulation of plane stress plasticity

Kinematics of finite (large) deformation