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A First Course in the Finite Element Method

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This book may be the best text book I have come across in years.
If you have the basis of engineering (or physics or maths) you barely need an instructor.
The explainations are clear, and I haven't found any mistakes yet (if there are mistakes they will be few).
Lots of nice problems with answers provided.

This book is excellent for whom desires to learn on which basis FEMs work (undergraduate and graduate).

A very good book for someone that has never studied this subject before. It's clearly written, and has very good practical examples. I was able to easily work the problems in the end of the chapters using the equations and examples in the text. To use this book, you need to have elementary knowledge of mechanics of materials, basic structural design, and matrices. There is a very good appendix on matrices, which helps you work through that part of FEM.

It is the only finite element text that I have, it was required for my current course. It seems to do pretty well with example problems and other material. Tends to skip steps as do most higher learning textbooks, so be sure to brush up on your calculus knowledge.

This is a good book for the students like me, who would apply FEM for their research but have no idea about FEM. Usually, we don't need to know too much detail about FEM. We only need the basic principle. That's what this book offers. Instead of complex stress-strain analysis in other FEM books, this book starts from one-dimensional truss and beam problems to two-dimensional plane stress problems. I just read half of the book and now feel very comfortable with a FEM code.

Nice book!

More than likely you are looking at buying this book because it's required for a class. First things first, the book itself is chock full of great examples, with more examples for the more challenging sections. It explains several types of solution methods for each type of element. The only problem with this book, and I feel it is significant, is that there are a fairly large number of mistakes. Answers are provided in the back of the book but are regularly incorrect. Some of the examples also are off because they randomly multiply by a constant that shouldn't be there or raise a term to the third when it should be the second. The book also suffers slightly from formatting when it reduces the size of a matrix to make it fit more easily, leaving you to wonder what happened to the rest of it.

I bought this book to review for a class I teach in Finite Element Method. It is an update of the previous edition, with was a great book. I highly recommend this book!

I bought the book for a class I'm taking and it's proving a bit difficult to read, the text is small compared to most books, I'm assuming to save paper. The flow of the text seems to be a bit jumpy, as I read I have to refer to pictures and graphs which aren't on the same page, which makes keeping track of ideas a bit difficult when you're constantly flipping pages to find the correlating graph. Another item is that unless you know a little about the subject, then realizing key points is difficult, because they're not easily referenced. I suggest Bold typing or using the side margins to emphasize key points would help the introductory reader. So, as an introductory text the book is hard to read because the book is written more for the seasoned professional who is looking to brush up on some finite analysis techniques.

This is an Excellent product. The quality is absolutely amazing. The attention to detail is magnificent. This book is great for learning the required subject.

This is a very good and interesting book