ASSIGNMENT 1 ENT 347 FINITE ELEMENT METHODS

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 10 NOV 2014 (Monday)

1. For the two-bar truss shown in Figure 1:
(a) Assemble the global stiffness matrix K and global load vector F
(b) Determine the displacement for each node
(c) Recover the stresses in each element
(d) If material for element 1-3 is changed to mild steel with E = 200 GPa, compare the stress with
in (c). Give your conclusions.



Figure 1