The finite element method : its basis and fundamentals

The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals offers a complete introduction to the basis of the finite element method, covering fundamental theory and worked examples in the detail required for readers to apply the knowledge to their own engineering problems and understand more advanced app...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors Zienkiewicz, O. C. (Author), Taylor, Robert L. 1934- (Author), Zhu, J. Z. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK ; Waltham, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013.
EditionSeventh edition.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN1299833454
9781299833456
008095135X
9780080951355
9781856176330
1856176339
1856176304
9781856176309
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxviii, 714 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The standard discrete system and origins of the finite element method
  • chapter 2. Problems in linear elasticity and fields
  • chapter 3. Weak forms and finite element approximation : 1-D problems
  • chapter 4. Variational forms and finite element approximation : 1-D problems
  • chapter 5. Field problems : a multidimensional finite element method
  • chapter 6. Shape functions, derivatives, and integration
  • chapter 7. Elasticity : two- and three-dimensional finite elements
  • chapter 8. The patch test, reduced integration, and nonconforming elements
  • chapter 9. Mixed formulation and constraints : complete field methods
  • chapter 10. Incompressible problems, mixed methods, and other procedures of solution
  • chapter 11. Multidomain mixed approximations
  • chapter 12. The time dimension : semi-discretization of field and dynamic problems
  • chapter 13. Plate bending approximation : thin and thick plates
  • chapter 14. Shells as a special case of three-dimensional analysis
  • chapter 15. Errors, recovery processes, and error estimates
  • chapter 16. Adaptive finite element refinement
  • chapter 17. Automatic mesh generation
  • chapter 18. Computer procedures for finite element analysis.