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Overview
 

Code Aster online course

The Code-Aster course is an online course. It has 60 teaching hours to be finished in 3 months. At the end of the course an aptitude certificate will be issued to the students who pass the course.

The students receive manuals in pdf format, video-tutorials and solved exercises. An online platform is available 24 hours/7 days a week. The teacher has experience with Code-Aster.

The whole material (video-tutorials, exercises and texts) is available from the first day and there is no schedule. Video-tutorials are recorded. This enables each student to progress according to his learning pace.

The course structure is the following:
· 11 chapters about theory and solved exercises
· Obligatory exercises to pass the course
· Optional exercises to improve the level

Code-Aster is a software for finite element analysis and numerical simulation in mechanics and multiphysics. It is an open source and free software which can be downloaded from the page: www.code-aster.org.

 
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Duration: 60 hours, ONLINE
Start date: Consult: info@technicalcourses.net
Max time: 3 months
Price: 350 €
 
 
   
 
Description
 
Aimed at:

This course is aimed at people who are interested in mechanical simulation by FEM. Any previous knowledge of Code-Aster is not necessary to follow the course.


Objectives:

The objective of the course is to reach a basic-intermediate level of knowledge for the simulation of mechanical problems (and thermal) with the use of Code-Aster software.


Description of Code-Aster:

Code-Aster was developed by the company Electricité de France (EDF), for the study and maintenance of the power plants and distribution networks. It was liberated under GNU license (General Public License) in October of 2001.

The capability of problem resolution include:
·Static and dynamic analysis
·Linear problem analysis
·Non linear problem analysis in material (95 constitutive laws) and geometry.
·3D analysis with under integrated elements
·2D analysis with plates and shell models
·1D analysis with beam models

Additionally, Code-Aster is integrated in the software package Salome-Meca which include Pre-Process software (Salome Platorm) and Post-Process software ParaView to make easier the preparation and execution of the simulations.


More Information:

- Code_Aster, free CAE software


Video about description of the contents:





Methodology:

The evaluation will be done by theoretical and practical exercises.

 
Contents
 
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Open software for CAD and modeling
1.2 Open software for FEA
1.3 Short overview of Salome-Meca
1.4 Short overview of Code Aster

2 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE
2.1 Installing the software
2.2 Creating and editing your first geometry

3 THE CODE ASTER: PRESENTATION AND DOCUMENTATION
3.1 Presentation of the Code_Aster
3.2 The ASTER manual
3.2.1 User Manual  (U’s documents)
3.2.2 Reference Manual  (R’s documents)
3.2.3 Validation Manual  (V’s documents)
3.2.4 Developer Manual (D’s documents)
3.3 Most used ASTER commands and keywords

4 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Finite elements in continuum mechanics
4.3 Modal analysis
4.4 Heat transfer
4.5 A simple and practical 2D engineering example
4.6 A 3D engine connecting rod

5 PREPROCESSING: GEOMETRY AND MESH
5.1 Getting started with a simple 3D mechanical problem
5.2 Creating the geometry
5.3 Meshing the geometry
5.4 Exporting your mesh
5.5 Modifying the geometry
5.6 Refining your mesh
5.7 Importing a mesh
5.8 Exercises

6 RUNNING A FE ANALYSIS
6.1 Code_Aster’s files
6.1.1 Files names: *.export file
6.1.2 Mesh file: *.med file (Aster format)
6.1.3 Mesh file: *.mesh file (text format)
6.1.4 Command file: *.comm file
6.1.5 Output file: *.rmed file (Aster format)
6.1.6 Output file: *.resu file (text format)
6.1.7 Run messages file: *.mess file
6.2 Creating the Aster’s command file (*.comm file)
6.3 Running your first FE analysis
6.3.1 Executing Code_Aster at the CMD window
6.3.2 A rapid view of the results       

7 POSTPROCESSING
7.1 Postprocessing with Aster Study
7.2 Postprocessing with Paravis

8 LINEAR STATIC MECHANICS
8.1 Two dimensional (2D) problems
8.1.1 Plate with hole
8.1.2 Dam buttress
8.2 Problems with symmetry of revolution
8.2.1 Axisymmetric mechanical device
8.3 Three dimensional (3D) problems
8.3.1 Cantilever beam in bending
8.3.2 Aluminum connector for curtain walls
8.4 Plate bending
8.4.1 Simply supported square plate
8.5 Exercises

9 NON LINEAR STATIC MECHANICS

9.1 An elastoplastic beam (material nonlinearity)
9.2 Two bodies in simple contact
9.3 Friction contact problem
9.4 Exercises

10 LINEAR DYNAMICS
10.1 3D modal analysis: cantilever beam
10.2 Exercises

11 THERMAL ANALYSIS
11.1 Plate with two holes
11.2 3D cylindrical recipient
11.3 Exercises
 
Teachers
 
fototutor Miguel Cerrolaza Rivas 
Ph.D in Industrial Engineering by Universidad Politénica de Madrid (Spain), Master in Civil Engineering by Universidade Federal de Río de Janeiro (Brazil). Visiting profesor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussess (France) and Colorado School of Mines (USA). Currently he is profesor at the International University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). He has more than 30 years of experience in finite elements, numerical methods and computer modeling. He has written almost 10 books and dozens of papers in scientific journals. He has been invited to more than 40 conferences around the world. 
 
 
Registration information

If you are interest in this course, please fill in the Registration Form or contact us at info@technicalcourses.net and we will respond to any enquiry you may have.

Our contact:

• Telephone: +34 686 691 703

• E-mail: info@technicalcourses.net

 
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