SPECTRAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

In recent times, the use of composites and functionally graded materials (FGMs) in structural applications has increased. FGMs allow the user to design materials for a specified functionality and therefore have numerous uses in structural engineering. However, the behaviour of these structures under high - impact loading is not well understood. 'Spectral Finite Element Method: Wave Propagation, Health Monitoring and Control in Composite and Functionally Graded Structures' focuses on some of the wave propagation and transient dynamics problems with this complex media which had previously been thought unmanageable.