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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Civil Engineering |
| Mestrado Universitario en Enxeñería de Camiños, Canais e Portos |
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| Computational Mechanics |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Computational Mechanics | Code | 632514010 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. METHODS OF COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS | -Introduction to Computational Mechanics |
| 2. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD: 1D BOUNDARY PROBLEM. | -Introduction - Strong or classical form of the problem. - Weak or variational form of the problem. - Equivalence of weak and strong formulations. Natural environmental conditions - Galerkin approximation method - Matrix equations. Stiffness matrix K - Piecewise linear finite element space - The elementary point of view - Assembly of the global stiffness matrix and the global force vector |
| 3. FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR 2D AND 3D BOUNDARY PROBLEMS. | - Linear Heat Transfer - Linear Elastostatics |
| 4. ISOPARAMETRIC ELEMENTS. | - Isoparametric elements - High order elements. Lagrange polynomials |
| 5. BASIC CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING BY THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD. INTRODUCTION TO FREEFEM++ SOFTWARE. | - Introduction to the software - Geometric definition - Mesh generation - Definition of spaces - Resolution and boundary conditions - Application to problems |
| 6. DYNAMIC PROBLEMS | - Parabolic problems. Heat transfer equation |
| 7. INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING. | - What is Artificial Inteligence? - Multilayer Perceptron. - Neural Networks. |
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