MEC-E8003 - Beam, Plate and Shell Models D, Lecture, 28.2.2023-18.4.2023

TEACHING

Responsible teacher: Jouni Freund (JF)

Teacher: Markku Malmivuori (MM)

Lectures on Tue (14:15-16:00) and Wed (14:15-16:00) are based on the lecture notes available in the homepage on Fri of the previous week. Lectures are recorded.

Exercise session on Thu (12:15-14:00) is a lecture on solving the weekly exercise problems by hand, with MathType, and Mathematica notebooks of the course. Exercise sessions are recorded.

Calculation hours on Tue 16:15-17:00 (online), Wed 16:15-17:00 (online), and  Thu 14:15-16:00 are informal meetings for instructions, discussion, and questions on the weekly assignments. Calculation hours are not recorded.

COURSE MATERIAL

Course material of each week is published in the home page on Fri of the previous week.

Lecture notes contains the theory and examples related with the weekly topic to be discussed on Tue and Wed.

Example problems of each week contain answers and full solutions. Some of the solutions are explained in detail during the Calculation examples lecture on Thu.

Assignments (1,2) are discussed during the last 30min of the Tue and Wed lectures and later on the same day during the Calculation hours session. The dead-line is the day of the lecture 23:55.

Assignments (3,4,5) of each week are discussed during the Calculation examples lecture and Calculation hours on Thu. Some of the problems are structured and contain templates to be completed, some are non-structured to be solved from scratch. The dead-line is Sun 23:55.

All assignments are published and available in doc and pdf versions in the home page only. With the doc version, you may use MathType equation editor to fill the missing parts of a structured assignment or write the full solution to a non-structured assignment. Return of the solution through MyCourses should be pdf in type. Also handwriting with a paper printout (with pdf conversion in some manner) is accepted if the quality is good enough.

COURSE SOFTWARE

Calculation hours on Tue and Wed use Zoom:

https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/zoom-quick-guide

Assignments of the course are published and returned through MyCourses. Be prepared to use an equation editor and a tool for pdf-conversion:

https://www.dessci.com/en/  

https://download.aalto.fi/index-en.html

Mathematica notebooks of the course require Mathematica software to work. Download Mathematica in good time (it may take a few days to get the license)

https://download.aalto.fi/index-en.html

FINAL EXAM (OPTIONS)

Onsite exam (in Otaniemi campus) consists of five (5) problems from the set of solved example problems of the course material. In the onsite exam, you may use only the formula collection of the course. The time for the exam is 4h.

Online exam consist of four (4) problems published and returned through MyCourses in the same manner as the assignments of the course. The problems are not as “technical” ones as those of the onsite exam and they might also require a bit modelling etc. The time for the exam is 4h. In the online exam, you may use any material. However, you are supposed to solve the problems by yourself.

Solutions to the modelling assignment, home assignments, and lecture assignments are graded so that the maximal points correspond to one correctly solved exam problem in the final grading of the course. Participation in the final exam is possible only if the points from the assignments exceed half of the maximal points.

You may participate either the online or onsite exam. However, after passing the course, improving the grade is possible only in the onsite exam!