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Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Application With Ansys

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I bought this book hoping it would make my job of developing a finite element model using ANSYS easier. But I did not learn much of anything new from this book. I was already familiar with finite element theory and also took the intro to ansys course offered by ANSYS. I had hoped that this book would go beyond what was offered by these two sources, but sadly it does not. Still, for the beginner who knows next to nothing of f.e. methods and ANSYS this is probably helpful.

The book presents the "black box" behind the GUI. The author wrote the book especially for FE beginners. Ansys users will get the maximum benefit out of it. The book starts by explaining the various formulations applied in FEM. Then, 1D, 2D and 3D elements are presented, followed by simple and clear analytical applications in the field of structural, thermal and fluids. In the second half, the book introduces Ansys and then put it at work through a number of examples. The book/author has the merit of keeping the theory and examples simple and to the point. It is probably the only of its kind. This book is a must for beginners in the FEM.

this book is an excellent book for beginners. Unlike other books, this book gives simplified theory and powerful introduction to ANSYS. each chapter has several examples and some of these examples are solved again by ANSYS to verify the analytical results. you can learn the finite element method in any other book of similar size but, you can not learn ANSYS unless you go through the manuals. Therefore, the author did it for the reader. you will learn the FE theory and ANSYS from the same book and in less time than learning FE only from any other book.

This book should be great. It has great potential but it does not deliver. It tries to be half theory and half practical and does neither very well. The theory is confusing and not presented well or logically. The practical Ansys tutorials are certainly useful if you are trying to learn Ansys (and if you don't have access to any other tutorials then this book is defintely worth getting), however, there is no attempt to explain what the tutorial is trying to achieve or what it is doing. With a little more thought and organisation this could have been a good book. In its current form I would not reccomend it.

This is a good book for the basics in the FE method. It does teach how to use Ansys as well but of course having a tutorial dedicated to the program itself is always a better option.
If an introduction is what you need then this book is for you, if not there are many titles out dedicated to this topic though I really recommend this book to anyone trying to learn on their own.

The book has arrived one week before deadline. I'm very happy with this purchase, the book is written in a good way to learn about the FEA.

Thanks for the photo credit - that's usually forgotten on pictures of our work...

John Mannisto, adapco

We are at chapter 13 now and I now know that the book do not provide good fundamentals nor details to understand what FEA is all about. Tutorials are useless because they do not explain anything what's going on. You just must figure it out yourself. This is OK for secondary book. But don't expect to understand it without any other help. Choppy steps for the solution in the examples!

The book is not bad and does an ok job on how to use the GUI. What it really needs to do is tech how to develop batch files. This is more useful, allows a great degree of freedom, and helps to keep the garbage in garbage out mantra from being applied.

This book provides a great intro to FEA in general befor eit actually starts ANSYS Tutorial. The book is strictly for beginners .It contains very less details on Batch files ,nonlinear problems etc.