04-23-2011, 06:32 AM
Finite Element Structural Analysis using excel spreadsheet
Author: Richard Campbell, P.E., S.E. | Size: 1.7 MB | Format: PDF
Finite Element (FE) software is an essential tool for most structural design engineers, and at the cost of most commercial FE software, it had better be essential. The commercial FE software used by many engineering firms will provide you with more computer-output than you could read in a month and more than you can understand in a year. Commercial programs are great for impressing clients, and great for performing extensive analysis when really needed. But in design of frame-type structures, rarely is all that power andUnderstanding FE theory allows the user to in many cases forego commercial software and use more basic software, such as the FE spreadsheet. In 10 years of private practice, I haverelied almost exclusively on a FE spreadsheet for analyzing frame-type structures. That spreadsheet is presented in this course as a teaching tool and as a practical, effective design tool. The spreadsheet is limited to 2-dimensional frames of about 50 nodes, but if a problem is within that range it is easier to use, easier to understand, easier to port, easier to check and much less expensive than commercial programs using exce
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