xiv, 319 p., [8] p. of plates , ill. (some col.) , 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 312) and index.
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Accompanying CD-ROM contains ABAQUS Student CD-ROM along with an accompanying website that includes Matlab data and programs and instructor resources.
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Introduction -- Direct approach for discrete systems -- Strong and weak forms for one-dimensional problems -- Approximation of trial solutions, weight functions and gauss quadrature for one-dimensional problems -- Finite element formulation for one-dimensional problems -- Strong and weak forms for multidimensional scalar field problems -- Approximations of trial solutions, weight functions and gauss quadrature for multidimensional problems -- Finite element formulation for multidimensional scalar field problems -- Finite element formulation for vector field problems - Linear elasticity -- Finite element formulation for beams -- Commercial finite element program ABAQUS tutorials -- Appendix.