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Erdogan Madenci, Ibrahim Guven ... 
657 pages - Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (February 11, 2015)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1489975497 - ISBN-13: 978-1489975492

This textbook offers theoretical and practical knowledge of the finite element method. The book equips readers with the skills required to analyze engineering problems using ANSYS®, a commercially available FEA program. Revised and updated, this new edition presents the most current ANSYS® commands and ANSYS® screen shots, as well as modeling steps for each example problem. This self-contained, introductory text minimizes the need for additional reference material by covering both the fundamental topics in finite element methods and advanced topics concerning modeling and analysis. It focuses on the use of ANSYS® through both the Graphics User Interface (GUI) and the ANSYS® Parametric Design Language (APDL). Extensive examples from a range of engineering disciplines are presented in a straightforward, step-by-step fashion.

Key topics include: • An introduction to FEM • Fundamentals and analysis capabilities of ANSYS® • Fundamentals of discretization and approximation functions • Modeling techniques and mesh generation in ANSYS® • Weighted residuals and minimum potential energy • Development of macro files • Linear structural analysis • Heat transfer and moisture diffusion • Nonlinear structural problems • Advanced subjects such as submodeling, substructuring, interaction with external files, and modification of ANSYS®-GUI Supplementary materials for this book may be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com. This convenient online feature, which includes color figures, screen shots and input files for sample problems, allows for regeneration on the reader’s own computer. Students, researchers, and practitioners alike will find this an essential guide to predicting and simulating the physical behavior of complex engineering systems.

G. R. Liu ... 
712 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (July 29, 2002)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0849312388 - ISBN-13: 978-0849312380

As we attempt to solve engineering problems of ever increasing complexity, so must we develop and learn new methods for doing so. The Finite Difference Method used for centuries eventually gave way to Finite Element Methods (FEM), which better met the demands for flexibility, effectiveness, and accuracy in problems involving complex geometry. Now, however, the limitations of FEM are becoming increasingly evident, and a new and more powerful class of techniques is emerging.

For the first time in book form, Mesh Free Methods: Moving Beyond the Finite Element Method provides full, step-by-step details of techniques that can handle very effectively a variety of mechanics problems. The author systematically explores and establishes the theories, principles, and procedures that lead to mesh free methods. He shows that meshless methods not only accommodate complex problems in the mechanics of solids, structures, and fluids, but they do so with a significant reduction in pre-processing time.

While they are not yet fully mature, mesh free methods promise to revolutionize engineering analysis. Filled with the new and unpublished results of the author's award-winning research team, this book is your key to unlocking the potential of these techniques, implementing them to solve real-world problems, and contributing to further advancements.

Saeed Moaveni ... 880 pages - Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3rd edition (April, 2007) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0131890808 - ISBN-13: 978-0131890800 ...

While many authors cover the theory of finite element modeling, this is the only book available that incorporates ANSYS as an integral part of its content. Moaveni presents the theory of finite element analysis, explores its application as a design/modeling tool, and explains in detail how to use ANSYS intelligently and effectively. Now uses Excel in solving simple finite element problems. Adds a significant number of new problems. Incorporates the latest version of ANSYS throughout. A useful reference for mechanical, civil and environmental engineers.

Esam M. Alawadhi ... 416 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (July, 2009) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1439801606 - ISBN-13: 978-1439801604 ...

Ever J. Barbero ... 444 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; (April, 2013) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1466516615 - ISBN-13: 978-1466516618.

Peter I. Kattan ... 429 pages - Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (May 3, 2007)
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.

Michael D. Kotsovos ... 381 pages - Publisher: CRC Press (May 20, 2015)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1498712304 - ISBN-13: 978-1498712309

Finite-Element Modelling of Structural Concrete: Short-Term Static and Dynamic Loading Conditions presents a finite-element model of structural concrete under short-term loading, covering the whole range of short-term loading conditions, from static (monotonic and cyclic) to dynamic (seismic and impact) cases. Experimental data on the behavior of concrete at both the material and structural levels reveal the unavoidable development of triaxial stress conditions prior to failure which dictate the collapse and ductility of structural concrete members. Moreover, and in contrast with generally accepted tenets, it can be shown that the post-peak behavior of concrete as a material is realistically described by a complete and immediate loss of load-carrying capacity. Hence rational analysis and design of concrete components in accordance with the currently prevailing limit-state philosophy requires the use of triaxial material data consistent with the notion of a fully brittle material, and this approach is implemented in the book by outlining a finite-element method for the prediction of the strength, deformation, and cracking patterns of arbitrary structural concrete forms.

Presents a Unified Approach to Structural Modeling Numerous examples are given that show both the unifying generality of this proposed approach and the reliability of the ensuing numerical procedure for which the sole input is the specified uniaxial cylinder compressive strength of concrete and the yield stress of the steel. This not only offers a better understanding of the phenomenology of structural concrete behavior but also illustrates, by means of suitable examples, the type of revision required for improving design methods in terms of both safety and economy.

This book: Highlights the significance of valid experimental information on the behavior of concrete under triaxial stress conditions for interpreting structural behavior * Describes the techniques used for obtaining valid test data and modeling concrete behavior * Discusses the modeling of steel properties as well as the interaction between concrete and steel * Presents numerical techniques for incorporating the material models into nonlinear finite-element analysis for the case of short-term static loading * Provides numerical techniques adopted for extending the use of the numerical analysis scheme for the solution of dynamic problems *Predicts the response of a wide range of structural-concrete configurations to seismic and impact excitations

Using relevant case studies throughout, Finite-Element Modelling of Structural Concrete: Short-Term Static and Dynamic Loading Conditions focuses on the realistic modeling of structural concrete on the basis of existing and reliable material data and aids in the research and study of structural concrete and concrete materials.

Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla, Ashok D. Belegundu ... 
473 pages  - Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3rd edition (October, 2011) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0132162741 - ISBN-13: 978-0132162746 ... 

Introduction to Finite Engineering is ideal for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students and also as a learning resource to practicing engineers. This book provides an integrated approach to finite element methodologies. The development of finite element theory is combined with examples and exercises involving engineering applications. The steps used in the development of the theory are implemented in complete, self-contained computer programs. While the strategy and philosophy of the previous editions has been retained, the¿Fourth Edition has been updated and improved to include new material on additional topics.

Barna Szabó, Ivo Babuška ...
382 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (April 18, 2011)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0470977280 - ISBN-13: 978-0470977286

When using numerical simulation to make a decision, how can its reliability be determined? What are the common pitfalls and mistakes when assessing the trustworthiness of computed information, and how can they be avoided?
Whenever numerical simulation is employed in connection with engineering decision-making, there is an implied expectation of reliability: one cannot base decisions on computed information without believing that information is reliable enough to support those decisions. Using mathematical models to show the reliability of computer-generated information is an essential part of any modelling effort.

Giving users of finite element analysis (FEA) software an introduction to verification and validation procedures, this book thoroughly covers the fundamentals of assuring reliability in numerical simulation. The renowned authors systematically guide readers through the basic theory and algorithmic structure of the finite element method, using helpful examples and exercises throughout.

* Delivers the tools needed to have a working knowledge of the finite element method * Illustrates the concepts and procedures of verification and validation * Explains the process of conceptualization supported by virtual experimentation * Describes the convergence characteristics of the h-, p- and hp-methods * Covers the hierarchic view of mathematical models and finite element spaces * Uses examples and exercises which illustrate the techniques and procedures of quality assurance * Ideal for mechanical and structural engineering students, practicing engineers and applied mathematicians * Includes parameter-controlled examples of solved problems in a companion website (www.wiley.com/go/szabo).

Zhangxin Chen ... 410 pages - Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (December, 2010) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3642063217 - ISBN-13: 978-3642063213 ...

This book serves as a text for one- or two-semester courses for upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students and as a professional reference for people who want to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) using finite element methods. The author has attempted to introduce every concept in the simplest possible setting and maintain a level of treatment that is as rigorous as possible without being unnecessarily abstract. Quite a lot of attention is given to discontinuous finite elements, characteristic finite elements, and to the applications in fluid and solid mechanics including applications to porous media flow, and applications to semiconductor modeling. An extensive set of exercises and references in each chapter are provided.

Introduce every concept in the simplest setting and to maintain a level of treatment that is as rigorous as possible without being unnecessarily abstract. * Contains unique recent developments of various finite elements such as nonconforming, mixed, discontinuous, characteristic, and adaptive finite elements, along with their applications. * Describes unique recent applications of finite element methods to important fields such as multiphase flows in porous media and semiconductor modelling. * Treats the three major types of partial differential equations, i.e., elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations.

M. Asghar Bhatti ... 720 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (February, 2005) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0471648086 - ISBN-13: 978-0471648086 ...

Fundamental Finite Element Analysis and Applications: with Mathematica^® and MATLAB^® Computations is an innovative, practical guide to discovering the Finite Element Method (FEM). Providing a helpful balance between theory and application, it presents the FEM as a tool to find approximate solutions of differential equations, making it a useful resource for students from a variety of disciplines. Using a unique combination of live Mathematica^® and MATLAB^® implementations, along with problems in both ANSYS^® and ABAQUS^® formats, this hands-on book reveals the logic behind the equations to facilitate a full understanding of methods and solutions. In nine convenient chapters, Fundamental Finite Element Analysis and Applications: with Mathematica^® and MATLAB^® .Computations covers: Finite Element Method: The Big Picture * Mathematical Foundation of the Finite Element Method * One-Dimensional Boundary Value Problems * Trusses, Beams, and Frames * Two-Dimensional Elements * Mapped Elements * Analysis of Elastic Solids * Transient Problems * p-Formulation. An associated Web site (wiley.com/go/bhatti) includes interactive application files and notebooks for Mathematica^®, MATLAB^®, ANSYS^®, and ABAQUS^®, with expanded exercises to use with the book. Fundamental Finite Element Analysis with Mathematica^® and MATLAB^® Computations is a clear and accessible learning tool for senior undergraduate and graduate-level students. *Finite Element Analysis with Mathematica and Matlab Computations and Practical Applications is an innovative, hands-on and practical introduction to the Finite Element Method that provides a powerful tool for learning this essential analytic method.

Gouri Dhatt, Emmanuel Lefrançois, Gilbert Touzot ...
This book offers an in-depth presentation of the finite element method, aimed at engineers, students and researchers in applied sciences.
The description of the method is presented in such a way as to be usable in any domain of application. The level of mathematical expertise required is limited to differential and matrix calculus.

The various stages necessary for the implementation of the method are clearly identified, with a chapter given over to each one: approximation, construction of the integral forms, matrix organization, solution of the algebraic systems and architecture of programs. The final chapter lays the foundations for a general program, written in Matlab, which can be used to solve problems that are linear or otherwise, stationary or transient, presented in relation to applications stemming from the domains of structural mechanics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer.