MAE 133Finite Element Methods in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

4 units · MAE · UC San Diego

Development of stiffness and mass matrices based upon variational principles and application to static, dynamic, and design problems in structural and solid mechanics. Architecture of computer codes for linear and nonlinear finite element analysis. The use of general-purpose finite element codes.

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Prerequisites

You need:

MAE 131A or SE 110A

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Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Materials Science and Engineering (B.S.)
Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Mechanics of Materials (B.S.)