Finite Element Method - Its Basis and Fundamentals (6th Edition)

This influential best-selling book provides a formidable resource covering the theory and the application of FEM, including the basis of the method, its application to advanced solid and structural mechanics and to computational fluid dynamics. It delivers the most up-to-date and comprehensive text...

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Main Authors Zienkiewicz, O. C., Taylor, R. L., Zhu, J. Z.
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford ; Tokyo Elsevier 2005
Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Butterworth-Heinemann
EditionSixth edition
Subjects
Continuum mechanics
Engineering mathematics
Finite element method
Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
Strength of Materials
Structural analysis (Engineering)
Structures, Theory of
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ISBN0750663200
9780750663205

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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page Preface Table of Contents 1. The Standard Discrete System and Origins of the Finite Element Method 2. A Direct Physical Approach to Problems in Elasticity: Plane Stress 3. Generalization of the Finite Element Concepts. Galerkin-Weighted Residual and Variational Approaches 4. 'Standard' and 'Hierarchical' Element Shape Functions: Some General Families of C0 Continuity 5. Mapped Elements and Numerical Integration - 'Infinite' and 'Singularity Elements' 6. Problems in Linear Elasticity 7. Field Problems - Heat Conduction, Electric and Magnetic Potential and Fluid Flow 8. Automatic Mesh Generation 9. The Patch Test, Reduced Integration, and Non-Conforming Elements 10. Mixed Formulation and Constraints - Complete Field Methods 11. Incompressible Problems, Mixed Methods and Other Procedures of Solution 12. Multidomain Mixed Approximations - Domain Decomposition and 'Frame' Methods 13. Errors, Recovery Processes and Error Estimates 14. Adaptive Finite Element Refinement 15. Point-Based and Partition of Unity Approximations. Extended Finite Element Methods 16. The Time Dimension - Semi-Discretization of Field and Dynamic Problems and Analytical Solution Procedures 17. The Time Dimension - Discrete Approximation in Time 18. Coupled Systems 19. Computer Procedures for Finite Element Analysis Appendices Author Index Subject Index