Offers a new way of introducing engineering students to the subject of stress and deformation analysis of solid objects and shows how to become more familiar with how numerical methods such as the finite element method are currently being used in industry.
Traditional FEM and the more recent BEM underlie many engineering computational methods and corresponding software. Both methods have their merits and also their limitations. The combination of both methods will provide an improved numerical tool in the future. The aim of this b…
"The authors believe that users of finite element analysis (FEA) software products must have a basic understanding of how mathematical models are constructed; what are the essential assumptions incorporated in a mathematical model; what is the algorithmic structure of the finite…
