ScaledBoundaryFiniteElementMethod...........................................................................................................................................OverviewThe coursewill present anoverviewof theprinciples andprocedures that lead to thedevelopmentof the scaledboundaryfinite elementmethod (SBFEM). The SBFEM shares the advantages of the boundary elementmethod (BEM) and the finiteelementmethod(FEM).LiketheFEM,itdoesnotrequirethefundamentalsolutionandliketheBEM,onlytheboundaryofthedomain is discretized. This makes the method an ideal numerical tool especially to solve problems in fracture mechanics,unboundeddomainproblems,wavepropagationtonameafew.Furthermore,thismethodprovidesahighdegreeofflexibilityinautomaticmeshgeneration. In this short course, theessentialsof themethodwillbeprovided toenable the students toappreciatetheadvantagesofthemethodanditspotentialintermsoffurtherresearch,developmentandapplications.

Courseparticipantswilllearnthesetopicsthroughlecturesandhands-onnumericalexperiments.Dates for the

Course

14thNovember,2016to18

thNovember,2016

HostInstitute IITMadras

No.ofCredits 1

Maximum No. of

Participants

40

YouShould

AttendIf…

§ Youareaseniorundergraduatestudent,postgraduatestudentsorafaculty inengineeringandappliedmathematics.

§ Engineersandresearchersfromindustry,governmentorganizationandR&Dlaboratories.§ Youareinterestedinnumericalmethodsforengineering.

Course

RegistrationFees

Theparticipationfeesfortakingthecourseisasfollows:StudentParticipants:Rs.1000FacultyParticipants:Rs.4000GovernmentResearchOrganizationParticipants:Rs.6000IndustryParticipants:Rs.8000

The above fee is towards participation in the course, the course material, computer use fortutorialsandassignments,andlaboratoryequipmentusagecharges.Modeofpayment:Demanddraftinfavourof“Registrar,IITMadras”payableatChennai

Accommodation Theparticipantsmaybeprovidedwithhostel accommodation, dependingon the availability, onpayment basis. Request for hostel accommodation may be submitted through thelink:http://hosteldine.iitm.ac.in/iitmhostel

CourseFacultyProf. Chongmin Song is a Professor and DeputyDirector at the Centre for Infrastructure Safety andEngineering, School of Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering, UNSW. Prof Song’s current research

interests are on the development of advanced numerical methodsandtheirapplicationtostructuralandgeotechnicalengineering.Prof.Songisoneofthetwooriginalcreatorsofthescaledboundaryfiniteelementmethod.

Dr.SundararajanNatarajanisafacultymemberintheDepartment ofMechanical Engineering at IITMadras.Hisresearchinterestslieintheareasofcomputationalsolidmechanicsandappliedmathematics.

CourseCoordinatorName:SundararajanNatarajan

Name:SundararajanNatarajan

Phone:(044)22574656E-mail:snatarajan@iitm.ac.in ...........................................................................URL:http://mech.iitm.ac.in/meiitm/personnal/snatarajan

MeshgenerationfromSTLimages

Imagebasedanalysisofmeso-structure