Schaum's Outline of Finite Element Analysis (Paperback)

by George Buchanan (Author) "The mathematics required for the study of finite element analysis can vary from elementary to sophisticated..." (more)
Key Phrases: equivalent joint loadings, subscript tensor notation, joint sign convention, Substitute Eqs, Exact Element, Repeat Prob (more...)

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If you want top grades and thorough understanding of finite element analysis, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have! It takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions. You also get additional problems to solve on your own, working at your own speed. (Answers at the back show you how youOre doing.) Famous for their clarity, wealth of illustrations and examplesNand lack of dreary minutiaeNSchaumOs Outlines have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. This guide will show you why!

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• 157 solved problems problems, including step-by-step solutions
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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070087148
• ISBN-13: 978-0070087149
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,012 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Robert O. Meitz "TechnoCat" (Arizona) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Summary but full of errors, March 24, 2001

By	"psschroder" (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews

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.