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Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis

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I am a graduate student of solid mechanics and I have read quite a few books on FEA. Of all the textbooks I have read-this is clearly the worst. The authors don't spend any time to make the material coherent and organized. They seem to have published this book just for the sake of establishing their names in the field. It is basically a collection of research papers on the subject. The worst part of the book is that the authors use excessive verbiage to describe extremely inportant concepts with little or no mathematics. This leaves the readers confused and disoriented. This book is not for those looking for an introductory text and is useless to even those experienced in the field. Avoid this book.

The comments left are interesting in that all the people teaching from it find it useful, and all the students find it frustrating...there is a trend here!

I agree that the explanations are great in detail and the content practical, but at a graduate level with minimal support from the professor and no TA available, not having examples or solutions (to the odds or evens at the very least) is infuriating. After spending close to $100 for this text, I had to go out to buy another with some problems to make it through my course. Two stars for readability, will pile the other three onto the review for my other text.

If a professor recommends this book for his course, my suggestion would be to go talk to some fellow students who have already taken the course to be sure you know what you are signing up for!

This book covers most of the essential topics in finite element method. Various concepts of the method are well explained in detail, and many practical topics useful for practitioners are presented in this book. I am teaching the finite element method using this book at a graduate course. It is an excellent text book for both students and lecturers. Well organized and abundant contents!

I think this is one of the best books on FE. It is written from the point of view of an engineer and avoids unnecessary mathematics. The concepts are explained very clearly and there is a fair number of solved examples in each chapter.

I would recommend this book for fellow engineers trying to get a good background on the field of finite element analysis. I also have been looking for anyone who might have an answer CD for this book. As someone else mentioned, the cd is hard to come by. I have been wanting to work some more of the homework problems but I don't know if I am doing them correctly. If anyone might know where I could get one, could you contact me at finite_element_30@hotmail.com. Thank you very much.

Ryan Mumm

This book gives a very good explanation in finite element especially for engineer. Its mathematics is simple and to the point. A very good book for the starter in finite element. But the solution is separate from this book, it is in CD and it is difficult to get the CD. If this book can contain both in one book, it will be great.

Excellent treatment of a subject that all mechanical design and analysis engineers should be familiar with. This book is written from the engineers point of view, rather than focusing on pure mathematics. Each chapter (all 19 of them) is richly packed with concise information relavent to the understanding of the finite element method in structural mechanics. Common element types are thoroughly explained and enough FORTRAN listings and algorithms are given to allow good programming. This book should be a standard on the shelves of everyone who does FEA work

I ordered this book and even though it took a little longer to get to my house, I still received it plenty of time before school started.

Although the content is there, there are no worked examples or a way to truly test your understanding. This may just be me but the text did not relate well to the analytical problems. However, if there is anyone who has come across a solutions book to accompany this text please let me know (rickwfsc@hotmail.com). I believe there was one for the 3rd addition but that is near impossible to obtain.

I really tried to learn the finite element method by reading this book in great detail and is why I bought this book for an introduction Finite Element class. The organization and notation of symbols of the book was very odd, and therefore made it hard to read. Rather than talking about the theory first, the authors first state the equations, and then talk about "remarks" on the equations and underlying theory. The book contains very easy and introductory examples and problems, not practical examples that would help in the computer implementation of finite elements. For example, the book does not contain any examples on how to compute the stresses and strains from interconnected finite elements (which would help greatly when you want to write your own finite element program). Overall, a very confusing and brief presentation of the topics. I would not recommend this book.