Finite Element Method with Applications in Engineering

PREFACE

The revolution in computer technology has led to the development of numerous computational techniques. The closed form solutions are either extremely difficult to obtain or not available for many engineering problems. Hence one has to resort to numerical methods. The Finite Difference Method (FDM), Finite Element Method (FEM), Boundary Element Method (BEM) and MeshFree Method are few examples of important numerical techniques, which are available in the field of computational mechanics. Each of these methods has its own merits and demerits. The choice of an appropriate method for the solution of any particular problem depends on investigator's familiarity of the method and nature of the problem. The aim of this book is to introduce ...