Finite Element Methods For Engineers

Professor Fenners definitive text is now back in print, with added corrections. It serves as an introduction to finite element methods for engineering undergraduates and other students at an equivalent level. Postgraduate and practising engineers will also find it useful if they are comparatively new to finite element methods.The main emphasis is on the simplest methods suitable for solving two-dimensional continuum mechanics problems, particularly those encountered in the fields of stress analysis, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Complete FORTRAN programs are presented, described and discussed in detail, and several practical case studies serve to illustrate the methods developed in the book.Finite element methods are compared and contrasted with finite difference methods, and throughout the level of computer programming, continuum mechanics, numerical analysis, matrix algebra and other mathematics employed corresponds to that normally covered in undergraduate engineering courses.

List of contents

Introduction and structural analysis; continuum mechanics problems; finite element analysis of harmonic problems; finite element meshes; some harmonic problems; finite element analysis of biharmonic problems; some biharmonic problems; further applications.

Product details

• Authors: Roger T Fenner, Roger T (Imperial College London Fenner, Roger T. Fenner, Roger T Fenner
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.1996
• EAN: 9781860940163
• ISBN: 978-1-86094-016-3
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, MATHEMATICS / Applied, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics, MATHEMATICS / Discrete Mathematics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Testing of materials, Materials science, Fluid mechanics, Maths for scientists, Maths for computer scientists, Maths for engineers, Engineering thermodynamics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General, Physics: Fluid mechanics, Stress & fracture