University of Utah Department of Mechanical Engineering


ME EN 7540: Handouts
Please inform the instructor when you find mistakes in these handouts.


Update (Jan 18, 2008):
Most of the theory handouts for this course has been moved to Wikiversity. The new location is http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Nonlinear_finite_elements.

LS-DYNA Handouts:
o LSDYNA 1: Running LSDYNA in the CADE Lab [pdf] Posted February 20, 2006
o LSDYNA 2: LSDYNA Explicit Beam Bending Keyword File Posted March 2, 2006
o LSDYNA 3: LSDYNA Explicit Plate Bending Keyword File Posted March 2, 2006


ANSYS Handouts:
o Ansys 1: Running ANSYS in the CADE Lab [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 2: ANSYS Beam Elements [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 3: 2D Elasticity and ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 4: Running Batch Jobs in ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 5: Importing IGES files into ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 6: 1-D Heat Conduction with ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 7: 3-D Beam Bending with ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 8: 3-D Solids and ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 9: Body Loads and ANSYS [pdf] Posted January 12, 2006
o Ansys 10: Posted February 13, 2006
  1. Nonlinear Heat Conduction - 1D
  2. Nonlinear Heat Conduction - 2D
o Ansys 11: ANSYS - Nonlinear Beam Bending Posted February 13, 2006
o Ansys 12: ANSYS - Neo-Hookean Hyperelastic Model Posted March 31, 2006
o Ansys 13: ANSYS - Hertzian Contact Modeling Posted March 31, 2006



Return to Advanced Finite Elements Home Page