Schaum's Outline of Finite Element Analysis [Paperback]

George Buchanan (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0070087148 | ISBN-13: 978-0070087149 | Publication Date: November 1, 1994 | Edition: 1

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• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070087148
• ISBN-13: 978-0070087149
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book!, October 29, 1999

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This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Finite Element Analysis (Paperback)

This book is excellent for beginners! It covers a lot of worked out examples, which helps to understand the subject properly. I recommend that you use this book along with another book, which covers mainly theory parts finite elements. Like most books of Schaum series, it has been written in a user-friendly manner! This is probably the only book that can make you to feel that learning finite element can be fun!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Schaum's on FEA Needs to be Updated, March 20, 2006

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Robert O. Meitz "TechnoCat" (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Finite Element Analysis (Paperback)

Schaum's Outline on Finite Element Analysis was a valuable and important source at the time it was first published in 1995. However, in the intervening 11 years, this field has advanced rapidly, and the material in Professor Buchanan's otherwise excellent outline is now seriously dated.

The outline is still useful for some purposes, but anyone who is looking for a brief introduction and overview of FEA as it is done today will be disappointed or even misled if they depend only on this outline.

On the other hand, the outline does provide a number of useful supplementary problems that may help students who are learning to employ modern FEA software and need to build their understanding of the fundamental ideas behind these methods.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Summary but full of errors, March 23, 2001

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Philip Smith "psschroder" (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Schaum's Outline of Finite Element Analysis (Paperback)

This book covers a lot of ground very concisely, using the problems to cover a lot of topics. The information is good, the presentation is good, but I have found at least a dozen typographical errors, and these are just the obvious ones. I am using this in an advanced course along with the text by Bathe. It's too bad that someone was too busy to proofread the text, as this is the only outline book for finite elements that I could find.