Course detail

Project - Computational Modelling

FSI-ZP6 Acad. year: 2026/2027 Summer semester

Supervisor

Ing. Petr Šperka, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Conditions for successful accomplishment of seminars (0-100 points, the minimum required points are 50):

  • scope and quality of the project submission (min. 50 points out of 100).

Conditions for obtaining the examination (0-100 points, the minimum required points are 50):

  • evaluation of team projects (max. 60 points),
  • individual solutions to assigned tasks and technical discussion of the issues and provided solution (min. 20 points out of 40),

up to 100 points in total, the final classification is given according to the ECTS scale.

Lecture: participation is recommended.

Exercises, laboratory exercises: attendance is compulsory and supervised by the lecturer; a maximum of two absences is allowed. In case of prolonged absence, the teacher is responsible for making up missed classes.

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-KSI-P: Mechanical Engineering Design, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 6 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

14 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  • Introduction to modelling. Essentials of modelling theory.

  • Theory of experiment and similarity.

  • Methodology of computational modelling.

  • Software for computational modelling.

  • Methods of model analysis. Introduction to optimization.

Laboratory exercise

12 hours, compulsory

Syllabus

Experimental results of solved problems will be obtained in the laboratory.

Computer-assisted exercise

52 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  • Force distribution, trusses and struts buckling.

  • Static loading of a notched component.

  • Combined stresses.

  • Dynamic effects of mass.

  • Dynamics of a body with rotational and linear motion.

  • Kinematics of body motion in the earth's gravitational field.

  • Kinematics of point masses motion.