本课程的教学目的是使学生理解掌握有限元方法的基本思想、方法，能够独立编程实现基本求解过程以及能够在商用有限元软件平台上进行实际的建模和应用，在实践的基础上深刻理解和掌握有限元分析方法。主要内容有：有限元方法的概述，张量表述的弹性力学微分提法和变分提法，有限元法的理论基础－变分法和加权残值法，杆梁结构的有限元分析原理，弹性连续体问题的有限元分析原理，有限元分析中常见单元的实现及其性质特征，有限元分析的基本数值方法，有限元程序的架构组成与自主开发，有限元分析的应用，有限元分析的最新进展。

This course is designed to help students understand and master the fundamental ideas and methods FEM. After taking this course, students should be able to realize the basic solution process by independent programming, and be able to simulate and solve practical problems on platform of commercial software of FEM, which will help them to understand and master FEM more profoundly. The main contents are: Introduction to FEM, Differential and variational descriptions of elasticity with tensor, Weighted Residual Methods and Variational Methods, Basic principles of FEM for analysis of bar-beam structures, Basic principles of FEM for analysis of continuum structures, Realization and characteristic of common elements, Basic numerical methods in FEM, Architecture of FEM procedures and independent development, Applications of FEM, Latest progresses of FEM.