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An introductory textbook for engineering students, connecting finite element theory with practical application and implementation.
List of contents
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical preliminaries; 3. Numerical analysis methods; 4. General procedure of FEA for linear static analysis: 1-D problems; 5. FEA for multi-dimensional scalar field problems; 6. Mesh generation; 7. FEA for multi-dimensional vector field problems; 8. Structural elements; 9. FEA for linear time-dependent analysis; Index.
About the author
Dr. Gang Li is a professor and D. W. Reynolds Emerging Scholar of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He was an awardee of the National Science Foundation Early Career Award. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Electronics and has been serving on the ASME Committee on Computing in Applied Mechanics since 2007. Dr. Li's scholarly articles on computational mechanics and finite element method frequently appear in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and Journal of Applied Physics.
Summary
An introductory textbook on the Finite Element Method for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering disciplines. Each chapter engages students with the comprehensive theory and mathematical framework by manually solving a case study of an engineering problem step by step, followed by a complete implementation in MATLAB®.
