WHAT EVERY ENGINEER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES OF FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

Komzsik, who works as a numerical analyst on NASTRAN software development, introduces methods for generating a finite element model, reducing the model to a computationally more efficient form, and computing the engineering solution. He explains how to approximate the real life geometry of a physical phenomenon by geometric modeling, discretize the computational geometry model into a finite element model, and construct static condensation and dynamic reduction transformation matrices. Some chapters contain a simple mathematical example to demonstrate the details of the computation while others describe an industrial application or an actual case study.