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CIEM5000 - Matrix Method in statics

Course information

  • Learning objectives, activities and assessment 💡
  • Course schedule 📅
  • How to use this TeachBook 📘
  • Contact information 💬
  • Brightspace announcements 📢

Activities

  • Lecture 1
    • Recap differential equations for structures
    • Recap displacement method
    • Force-displacement relations single extension element
    • Combine elements
    • Combine elements using matrix formulation
    • Setting up global equations directly
    • Implementation in Python
    • Local stiffness matrix Euler-Bernoulli element
    • Transformations
  • Workshop 1
    • Implementation
    • Apply
  • Lecture 2
    • Element loads
    • Non-zero Dirichlet boundary conditions
    • Postprocessing for continuum fields
    • Finite element method vs. Matrix Method
    • Example - 3D frame with torsion
  • Workshop 2
    • Implementation
    • Apply
  • Additional assignments
    • Beam
    • Kinked beam
    • Frame
  • Graded assignment

matrixmethod package

  • __init__.py
  • node.py
  • elements.py
  • constrainer.py

Miscellaneous

  • References
  • Credits and License
  • Changelog
  • Repository
  • Open issue

Index

By Tom van Woudenberg and Iuri Rocha from Delft University of Technology
Built with TeachBooks and Jupyter Book, CC BY 4.0

Last updated on February 20, 2025.