
You’ve made it to the end…well done! We’ve covered a lot of ground in this course, and you’ve picked up a lot of skills along the way. You should feel comfortable working with OpenSeesPy, Pynite, GMSH and, of course, your own custom code. This is a formidable set of tools that you’re now capable of deploying!

That said, the most important takeaway from the course, in my opinion, is the knowledge and understanding you should now have about how finite element analysis works, behind the scenes and specifically how the Reissner-Mindlin element formulation allows us to accurately model thick and thin plates.

In addition to writing your own analysis scripts, this knowledge should allow you to tackle plate analyses in any commercial software with a much greater degree of confidence, since you now understand what’s actually happening behind the UI!

So, where to next?? Well, shell elements are the obvious next step! In the next course, we’ll build on what we learned here and expand to Reissner-Mindlin shell elements. The good news is that we have most of the hard work done after developing our plate elements. Extending to capture the membrane behaviour of shells is a relatively straightforward exercise. So, I hope you’ll join me for that.

## 🏆 Certificate of Completion and Feedback

All that’s left to do now is claim your course completion certificate. This is a nice way to mark your achievement and let people know about your new skillset. You can request your personalised certificate by following the link below.

### 🙏 Course Feedback and Reviews

If you have feedback about the course or would like to leave a course review, that would be great. Your feedback helps me improve my courses and your reviews help other people decide if the course is right for them. You can leave your review and feedback when completing your certificate request form linked below this video.

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Your personalised certificate will be emailed to you after you submit the form. You should receive your certificate within the hour (remember to keep an eye on your junk email folder).

Ok, that’s it for now. Again, well done for finishing the course. Hopefully you’ll join me in picking up the story over in the shell analysis course! Bye for now.

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