First Course in the Finite Element Method

By Daryl L. Logan

Book Overview

* Emphasis is on structural stress analysis, also includes heat transfer and fluid mechanics..* Students learn how to apply the finite element method towards the solution of real engineering problems..* Computer applications are included along with programs to enable students to solve more complex problems, and more realistic engineering problems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534929648
• ISBN13: 9780534929640
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: CL Engineering
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent.

This is an Excellent product. The quality is absolutely amazing. The attention to detail is magnificent. This book is great for learning the required subject.

A good book for understanding FEM within a week

This is a good book for the students like me, who would apply FEM for their research but have no idea about FEM. Usually, we don't need to know too much detail about FEM. We only need the basic principle. That's what this book offers. Instead of complex stress-strain analysis in other FEM books, this book starts from one-dimensional truss and beam problems to two-dimensional plane stress problems. I just read half of the book and now feel very comfortable with a FEM code. Nice book!

Excellent First Text

A very good book for someone that has never studied this subject before. It's clearly written, and has very good practical examples. I was able to easily work the problems in the end of the chapters using the equations and examples in the text. To use this book, you need to have elementary knowledge of mechanics of materials, basic structural design, and matrices. There is a very good appendix on matrices, which helps you work through that part of FEM.

Great update

I bought this book to review for a class I teach in Finite Element Method. It is an update of the previous edition, with was a great book. I highly recommend this book!

Excellent first course in FEM

This book may be the best text book I have come across in years. If you have the basis of engineering (or physics or maths) you barely need an instructor.The explainations are clear, and I haven't found any mistakes yet (if there are mistakes they will be few).Lots of nice problems with answers provided.This book is excellent for whom desires to learn on which basis FEMs work (undergraduate and graduate).