quiz

1. (Autonomous)
Coimbatore – 32
15MD05-FINITE ELEMNT METHOD
1. The solutionbyFEMis[ ]
(a) Always exact (b) mostly approximate (c) sometimes exact (d) never exact
2. Primaryvariable inFEMstructural analysisis[ ]
(a) displacement (b) force (c) stress(d) strain
3. The art of subdividing a structure into convenient number of smaller components is known as [ ]
(a) global stiffness matrix (b) force vector (c) discretization (d) none
4. _______ is/are the phase/sof finite elementmethod[ ]
(a) Preprocessing (b) Solution (c) Post Processing (d) a, b & c
5. The characteristicsof the shape functionsis/are [ ]
(a) the shape functionhasunitvalue at one nodal pointandzero value atthe other nodes(b) the sum of
the shape function is equal to one (c) a & b (d) none
6.) The pointsinthe entire structure are definedusingcoordinatessystemisknownas[ ]
(a) local coordinates (b) natural coordinates (c) global coordinate system (d) none
7. A plane trusselementhasastiffnessmatrix of order[ ]
(a) 2 x 2 (b) 4 x 4 (c) 6 x 6 (d) 1 x 1
8. Determinantof assembledstiffnessmatrix before applyingboundaryconditionsis[ ]
(a) < 0 (b) = 0 (c) > 0 (d) depends on the problem
9. Each node of a 1-D beamelementhas_______degreesof freedom[ ]
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
10. The 1-D beamelementshouldhave ______ continuity.[ ]
(a) C3 (b) C2 (c) C1 (d) C0