Introduction to the Finite Element Method and Implementation with Matlab(r) - Li, Gang

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Résumé :
An introductory textbook for engineering students, connecting finite element theory with practical application and implementation.

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
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.