Finite Element Modeling for Stress Analysis
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471115983 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It emphasizes the behaviour of finite elements, and describes how to use the methods successfully while including enough theory to explain why elements behave as they do.. This undergraduate text is designed for those who will use finite elements in their daily work
Good, but Needs More Development Let me start out by saying that an excellent starter book on FEA has yet to be written. It's a frustrating situation, but we'll have to live with it for now. Cook has the foundation for a really good book here. He does a decent job of explaining element formulations and their limitations without bringing on endless pages of variational calculus that we're all sick of seeing in FEA books.But the book needs more development. What engineers want is a book that will give the BASIC mathematical foundations, and then get on with showing how to DO finite element analysis. That was the attempt of Adams and Askenazi's book,. "fantastic guide for structural FEA" according to G. Kirkos. This book is an absolutely fantastic guide to all aspects of structural finite element analysis, with short sections on thermal and other disciplines. It can be described as a book on how to REALLY use FEA - an appropriate level of theory is discussed, and then the author provides a very lucrative discussion of actually using FEA to model real-world systems. Pitfalls, how elements can or cannot actually model structures, and generally good FEA practise are discussed. If you want to know what you're doing using FEA and have an engineering background, you want this book.. Concise summary of zillions of theoretical concepts Every FE analyst NEEDS to know the content in this book, because as the author points out, FE modeling is much more than mere meshing and pre-preprocessing. It's nothing fancy, just a numerical method for the solution and the rest of the process, knowing the problem theoretically and conceptually is much more important than pretty pictures. A MUST HAVE for every FE analyst.
Instructor's Manual available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons