LAUCE 2125 · Finite Elements for Structures

Winter 2015 · Université catholique de Louvain



Lecture 1, Thursday, Sept. 17	Course overview, A small introduction to the calculus of variations Some notes for lecture 1

Lecture 2, Thursday, Sept. 24	Variational Principles in Structural Mechanics Some notes for lecture 2

Lecture 3, Thursday, Oct. 1	Finite Elements for trusses Some notes for lecture 3

Lecture 4, Thursday, Oct. 8	Programming a truss solver in C/C++ Some notes for lecture 4 C++ code of a very simple linear system solver API.

Lecture 5, Thursday, Oct. 29	Two dimensional Frames Some notes for lecture 5 C++ code of a very Graphical User Interface using OpenGL.