C&EE 235B

Finite Element Analysis of Structures

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Direct energy formulations for deformable systems; solution methods for linear equations; analysis of structural systems with one-dimensional elements; introduction to variational calculus; discrete element displacement, force, and mixed methods for membrane, plate, shell structures; instability effects.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisites: courses 130, 235A.

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C&EE 235B

C&EE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
  - C&EE 91Statics2 more beneath
  - MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
  - MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials2 more beneath

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C&EE 235B

C&EE 235CNonlinear Structural Analysis
C&EE 238Computational Solid Mechanics

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