Course Details
Numerical models in Civil Engineering
Academic Year 2025/26
VUC008 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Introduction to Finite Element Method, the basic characteristics, job definition.
- The family of products for FEM and CFD, characteristics of individual products and modules.
- Modeling tools in a graphical environment system.
- Material libraries, basic adjustment of their physical properties.
- Definition of an external load, sources of heat or burning. Utilization of symmetry properties of the model to simplify the task.
- Selection of suitable plane elements and meshing. Universally useful elements in the library.
- Settings of solver and its parameters, calculating.
- Displaying the final solution, the choice of variables, range and interpretation.
- Creating of a spatial model.
- Basic spatial finite elements and automatic creation of spatial networks.
- Interpretation of results solving spatial deformation under load.
- Interface for import and export of construction / CAD environments.
- Parallel computing.