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What Every Engineer Should Know About Computational Techniques of Finite Element Analysis

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With a title that begins "what every engineer should know", you might expect this to be accessible to every engineer. However, if you're new to finite element analysis, you'll probably have serious trouble following the book.

This is an advanced math text, a series of mathematical algorithms for laying out and solving problems. It's about using finite element analysis more effectively and efficiently, not about learning to use it in the first place. Unless you already understand the topic - what finite element analysis does, how to use it, what sort of problems it can and can't solve - you probably won't get much out of this book.

The book may well be useful and readable for people who have prior experience with finite element analysis. I just can't tell. (If I could review it without giving it a rating, I would.) Just be aware that this is not a book for beginners.