A First Course in the Finite Element Method
ISBN: 9780495668251 | 0495668257
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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A FIRST COURSE IN THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD provides a simple, basic approach to the course material that can be understood by both undergraduate and graduate students without the usual prerequisites (i.e. structural analysis). The book is written primarily as a basic learning tool for the undergraduate student in civil and mechanical engineering whose main interest is in stress analysis and heat transfer. The text is geared toward those who want to apply the finite element method as a tool to solve practical physical problems.
| Introduction | |
| Introduction to the stiffness (displacement) method | |
| Development of truss equations | |
| Development of beam equations | |
| Frame and grid equations | |
| Development of the plane stress and strain stiffness equations | |
| Practical considerations in modelling: interpreting results and examples of plane stress/strain analysis | |
| Development of the linear-strain t... MORE | |
| Axisymmetric elements | |
| Isoparametric formulation | |
| Three-dimensional stress analysis | |
| Plate bending element | |
| Heat transfer and mass transport | |
| Fluid flow in porous media and through hydraulic networks; and electrical networks and electrostatics | |
| Thermal stress | |
| Structural dynamics and time-dependent heat transfer | |
| Matrix algebra | |
| Methods for solution of simultaneous linear equations | |
| Equations for elasticity theory | |
| Equivalent nodal forces | |
| Principle of virtual work | |
| Properties of structural steel and aluminum shapes | |
| Answers to Selected problems | |
| Index | |
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