Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- 1 Formulation of the Equations of Motion
- 2 Element Energy Functions
- 3 Introduction to the Finite Element Displacement Method
- 4 In-plane Vibration of Plates
- 5 Vibration of Solids
- 6 Flexural Vibration of Plates
- 7 Vibration of Stiffened Plates and Folded Plate Structures
- 8 Vibration of Shells
- 9 Vibration of Laminated Plates and Shells
- 10 Hierarchical Finite Element Method
- 11 Analysis of Free Vibration
- 12 Forced Response I
- 13 Forced Response II
- 14 Computer Analysis Techniques
- Appendix 1 Equations of Motion of Multi-Degree of Freedom Systems
- Appendix 2 Transformation of Strain Components
- Answers to Problems
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
14 - Computer Analysis Techniques
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- 1 Formulation of the Equations of Motion
- 2 Element Energy Functions
- 3 Introduction to the Finite Element Displacement Method
- 4 In-plane Vibration of Plates
- 5 Vibration of Solids
- 6 Flexural Vibration of Plates
- 7 Vibration of Stiffened Plates and Folded Plate Structures
- 8 Vibration of Shells
- 9 Vibration of Laminated Plates and Shells
- 10 Hierarchical Finite Element Method
- 11 Analysis of Free Vibration
- 12 Forced Response I
- 13 Forced Response II
- 14 Computer Analysis Techniques
- Appendix 1 Equations of Motion of Multi-Degree of Freedom Systems
- Appendix 2 Transformation of Strain Components
- Answers to Problems
- Bibliography
- References
- Index
Summary
A new user of finite element analysis is unlikely to start writing a computer program. The reason for this is that there is a large number of general purpose finite element programs which can be obtained commercially. All are available on a wide range of powerful desktop computers. There is also an increasing number available for running on personal computers. These tend to be a subset of the desktop version. They can be used to analyse small scale structures and also prepare the input data for large scale structures which are to be analysed on a powerful desktop.
This chapter assumes that the reader intends to use one of these commercial programs. Details of programming aspects can be found in references [14.1–14.6]. Some of the problems at the ends of earlier chapters require the use of a finite element program as indicated. Those readers who do not have such a program available can use the program MATLAB [14.7].
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- Introduction to Finite Element Vibration Analysis , pp. 449 - 466Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010