Written for senior-year undergraduates and first-year graduate students with solid back-grounds in differential and integral calculus, this book is oriented toward engineers and applied mathematicians. A course in linear algebra is helpful but not essential. Courses in elasticity, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics should facilitate the student's understanding of the applications emphasized in …
The purpose of this third edition is again to provide a simple, basic approach to the finite element method that can be understood by both undergraduate and graduate students without the usual prerequisites required by most available texts in this area. The book is written primarily as a basic learning tool for the undergraduate student in civil and mechanical engineering whose main interest is…