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Touhami Baki
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How to assemble the matrix of Finite Element Method automatically

with a program, when we know the coordinates of all the nodes of
the mesh?
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C. Martn Saravia National Scientic and Technical Research Council strain conditions given for thick plates?

It is not enough to know the coordinates of the nodes... you should 25 answers added
specify the element stifness matrix in order to be able to assemble the
What is the difference between strong form and weak
global stiffness matrix.
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The assembly algorithm for the FEM looks something like this: 9 answers added
for i=1:ldof
ii=gdof(i);
for j=1:ldof
jj=gdof(j);
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M(ii,jj) = m(i,j) + M(ii,jj);
K(ii,jj) = kt(i,j) + K(ii,jj);
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end
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gdof is a vector that contains the global degrees of freedom of the

element and ldof is a vector that contains the local degrees of freedom of
the element.
Sep 20, 2013 Recommend 1 Recommendation

Hojjat Badnava Isfahan University of Technology

You need element connectivity, number of DOFs per node, number of
nodes per element, number of elements and element stiffness matrix

somthing like this:

neln = number of nodes per element
ndof = number of DOFs per node
el_stif = current element stiffness matrix
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for i = 1:ndof
for b = 1:neln
for k = 1:ndof
rw = ndof*(connect(a,elmn )-1)+i;
cl = ndof*(connect(b,elmn )-1)+k;
gStif(rw,cl) = gStif(rw,cl) + el_stif(ndof*(a-1)+i,ndof*(b-1)+k);
end
end
end
end

end
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Hojjat Badnava Isfahan University of Technology

connect = element connectivity
connect(i,j)=List of nodes on the jth element

Follow the bellow link to nd a good example with Matlab:

http://solidmechanics.org/FEA.htm
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Dr.O.P. Gupta Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Several points are to be claried before the question can be answered
fully. However, if the questioner is less conversant with FEM than FDM,
following may provide some explanation. In FDM nodes are regularly
spaced in square grid, the difference equation for a particular phenomena
is written at a node and applied to all the nodes for nal solution. Thus
nodal coordinates are sufcient for solution. FEM is a more powerful
technique and it is different from FDM in following respect.
1. First domain is to be divided in elements (simplest is triangle with 3
nodes at corners). Besides supplying nodal coordinated the nodes
associated with elements are to be specied (nodal connectivity). This is
mesh generation (programs are available for this).
2. The governing equation of the physical phenomena under study (i.e.
stress analysis, heat conduction, uid ow etc.) is to be satised in the
element, which results in generation of elemental stiffness matrix. Such
stiffness matrices from all elements are assembled to form overall
stiffness matrix, which is then solved to obtain parameter of interest
(such as temperature) at all nodes. Some very efcient techniques have
been developed to solve such huge matrices.
3. The colour plots of results are obtained for better visual presentation.
4. The above 3 steps are called PREPROCESSOR, SOLUTION and POST
PROCESSOR.
Although one can develop his own program to perform all these steps,
such efforts are far more difcult here than in FDM. Generally commercial
packages, such as ANSYS, Nastran, Abaqus etc. or open source free
packages (like ELMER) are available and can be used for all three stages
stated above, even for very complex problems.
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Ariadne Tsambani Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Good Evening.You should try to visit the sites:
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http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/users/papers/engr/ernesto/hillb2/MEP/
Other/Articles/MeshingGuide.pdf
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Touhami Baki Universit des Sciences et de la Technologie d'Oran

Mohamed Boudiaf
Thank you for the answer
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Abdullah Waseem Ecole Centrale de Nantes

connectivity array for assembling element matrix into global matrix is as
follows

K((i-1)*(nn-1)+k,(i-1)*(nn-1)+l) = K((i-1)*(nn-1)+k,(i-1)*(nn-1)+l) + Ke(k,l);

where,
K=global stiffness matrix
Ke= element stiffness matrix
i=element loop
nn=no of nodes
k=element node number
l=element node number
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Lee Margetts The University of Manchester

The 5th edition of "Programming the Finite Element Method", Wiley, 2014
describes a range of assembly algorithms using different storage
strategies in Chapter 3. The book provides Fortran source code along with
the explanatory materials. The source code is quite compact and easy to
read. It is fairly straightforward to manually rewrite the code in Matlab
format. See http://tinyurl.com/o27v6s2 for a link to a description of the
book. Perhaps your University library can source a copy for you?
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Saeed Bonakdar Petroleum University of Technology

I have the same problem, but I didn't understand the "connect" matrix !!

could you please help me?

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Atilio Morillo University of Zulia

I suggest you to consult somelecture notes like, for example, Dr Cuneyt
Sert, in his course ME 582 about nite element method. It is achievable
through the link
http://users.metu.edu.tr/csert/me582/ME582%20Ch%2002.pdf

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