1.9 HOW TO USE THE BOOK?

A large number of books are available on FEM. Thus, it may be rather difficult for a user (student, teacher or practitioner) to effectively follow-up a plan-of-study. Of course, the plan-of-study may depend on the time available and the objectives of the study such as

  1. To study the FEM systematically for the solution of complex problems (students and teachers).
  2. To have an in-depth understanding of FEM so as to further pursue research on FEM topics (researchers).
  3. To study FEM for minimum understanding to use software for practical design and analysis problems (practitioners).

This book has been written primarily to serve the first objective. However, it addresses the other two objectives also.

To meet the first objective ...

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