C&EE 235B · CEE 235BFinite Element Analysis of Structures
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 130, 235A.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 235B
- C&EE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
- C&EE 235AAdvanced Structural Analysis
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
2 direct requisites. Showing 10 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.