Course Details

Numerical models in Civil Engineering

Academic Year 2023/24

BU097 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Prerequisites

Basics of English language.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

1 credit

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

Introduction to Finite Element Method, the basic characteristics, job definition. The family of products for FEM and CFD, characteristics of individual products and modules. Modeling tools in a graphical environment system. Material libraries, basic adjustment of their physical properties. Definition of an external load, sources of heat or burning. Utilization of symmetry properties of the model to simplify the task. Selection of suitable plane elements and meshing. Universally useful elements in the library. Settings of solver and its parameters, calculating. Displaying the final solution, the choice of variables, range and interpretation. Creating of a spatial model. Basic spatial finite elements and automatic creation of spatial networks. Interpretation of results solving spatial deformation under load. Interface for import and export of construction / CAD environments. Parallel computing.