| Summary: | The purpose of this fifth edition is again to provide an introductory approach to the finite element method that can be understood by both undergraduate and graduate students without the usual prerequisites 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, although new material on electrical networks and electrostatics has been included in this edition that should be of interest to the electrical engineer as well. Topics include basic treatments of (1) simple springs and bars, leading to two- and three-dimensional truss analysis; (2) beam bending, leading to plane frame, grid and space frame analysis; (3) elementary plane stress/strain elements, leading to more advanced plane stress/strain elements and applications to more complex plane stress/strain analysis; (4) axisymmetric stress analysis; (5) isoparametric formulation of the finite element method; (6) three-dimensional stress analysis; (7) plate bending analysis; (8) heat transfer and fluid mass transport; (9) basic fluid flow through porous media and around solid bodies, hydraulic networks, electrical networks, and electrostatics analysis; (10) thermal stress analysis; and (11) time-dependent stress and heat transfer. |
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