An Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
Subtitle: A Computational Approach
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783764343088
Subjects: Engineering - General; Technology & Industrial Arts
First sentence: In this chapter, after a brief historical sketch about the development of the finite element methods, we discuss the weak variational formulation and present the Galerkin and Rayleigh-Ritz methods, which belong to the class of weighted residual methods.