MATLAB Guide to Finite Elements
Subtitle: An Interactive Approach
By: by Peter I. Kattan
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9783662052112; 9783662052099
Subjects: Engineering; Numerical analysis; Computer software
Description: This book explores the numerical implementation of Finite Element Analysis using the computer program MATLAB, which is very popular today in engineering and engineering education. The book contains a short tutorial on MATLAB as well as a systematic strategy for the treatment of finite element methods. Useful to both students and researchers in engineering, it provides various examples and exercises from mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering, as well as from materials science. The book especially stresses the interactive use of MATLAB, with each example solved in an interactive manner. The accompanying CD-ROM includes more than fifty MATLAB functions specifically written to be used with this book in the form of a MATLAB Finite Element Toolbox. An extensive solutions manual is provided as well, which includes detailed solutions to all the problems in the book for classroom use.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Spring Element; title: The Linear Bar Element; title: The Quadratic Bar Element; title: The Plane Truss Element; title: The Space Truss Element; title: The Beam Element; title: The Plane Frame Element; title: The Grid Element; title: The Space Frame Element; title: The Linear Triangular Element; title: The Quadratic Triangular Element; title: The Bilinear Quadrilateral Element; title: The Quadratic Quadrilateral Element; title: The Linear Tetrahedra (Solid) Element.-References; title: Answers to Problems; title: Contents of Accompanying CD-ROM; title: Index.