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This textbook is intended to be used by the senior engineering undergraduate and the graduate student. Nowadays, the finite element method has become one of the most widely used techniques in all the engineering fields, including aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, etc. To unveil the FE technique, the textbook provides a detailed description of the finite element method, starting from the most important basic theoretical basis, e.g., the Galerkin method, the variational principle, followed by the detailed description of the various types of finite elements, including the bar, the beam, the triangular, the rectangular, the 3D elements. The primary aim of the textbook is to provide a comprehensive description of the FE solutions using different types of elements. Therefore, the properties of different elements and the solution discrepancies caused by using different elements are highlighted in the book. Thus, the textbook is very helpful for engineers to understand the behaviours of different types of elements. Additionally, the textbook can help the students and engineers write FE codes based on the theories presented in the book. Furthermore, the textbook can serve as the basis for some advanced computational mechanics courses, such as the nonlinear finite element method.
About the author
Michael A. Zhuravkov is currently the head of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department, Belarusian State University (BSU), Minsk, Belarus. Prof. Zhuravkov is the science leader of research laboratory of Applied Mechanics. He has more than 450 scientific works, including 15 monographs, 17 textbooks, courses of lectures; 15 brochures, scientific publications; more than 250 scientific articles and publications in the reviewed editions, and more than 130 publications in English-language editions. He has prepared 3 Doctor of Science and 15 Doctors of Philosophy (candidates of sciences).
He is the science leader of a large number of International research projects and programs (fundamental and applied). Prof. Zhuravkov is a member of some editorial boards of scientific international journals and organizing regularly working conferences and symposia committees. He was a visiting professor at the Harbin University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology (China), Krakow Pedagogical University (Poland), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and Royal Institute of Technology, KTH (Sweden), and other universities.
Yongtao Lyu is currently an associate professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, China. He obtained his bachelor and master of engineering degrees (2001-2007) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (nationally top 10), China. Then he received the EPSRC scholarship and completed his Ph.D. study (2007-2010) at Cardiff University, UK. Afterward, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2010-2013) at the Institute of Biomechanics, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and then as a senior research associate (2013-2015) at the Institute for in silico Medicine, the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. Lyu's main research interests lie primarily in the mechanical behavior of biomaterials, the computational modeling of human body systems, and the bionic design of bone scaffolds. Dr. Lyu has published over 40 SCI-indexed academic papers. Most of them are in the top-level journals in biomechanics, such as the Journal of Biomechanics and Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.
Eduard I. Starovoitov is currently the head of the Structural Mechanics Department, Belarusian State University of Transport, Gomel, Belarus. Prof. E. Starovoitov is the founder and the leader of the Belarusian scientific school for research of stress-strain state of layered viscoelastic-plastic elements of structures operating under conditions of complex static and dynamic effects in thermal and radiation fields. He has prepared 2 Doctor of Science and 11 Doctors of Philosophy (candidates of sciences). Prof. E. Starovoitov has more than 300 scientific works. There are 10 monographs, 10 textbooks, and courses of lectures. More than 100 articles have been published in prestigious international scientific journals.
