Language: English - ISBN-10: 3540706976 - ISBN-13: 978-3540706977
This successful textbook 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. An extensive
solutions manual is provided as well, which includes detailed solutions
to all the problems in the book for classroom use. This second edition
includes a new brick (solid) element with eight nodes and a
one-dimensional fluid flow element. A review of the applications of
finite elements in various fields such as fluid flow, heat transfer,
structural dynamics, electro-magnetics, is added as well.