Métodos Computacionais em Engenharia Mecânica

The course of Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering aims to provide the student with a theoretical background and programming skills at the level of numerical simulation by finite elements of static and dynamic mechanical systems. This is an important tool in the practice of mechanical engineering because basically the modern structural analysis in an academic, business or industrial environment is computer assisted (CAE, Computer Aided Engineering). For this reason, the course puts students in contact, on the one hand, with a commercial finite element reference software (ANSYS). On the other hand, the entire programming part is carried out in an OCTAVE environment so that the student develops their own code generation capabilities tailored to the needs of problems that may arise in engineering practice.