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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Written by leading researchers and practitioners, Finite Element Analysis of Elastomers blends established knowledge in this important area with up-to-date research topics, practical hints and thought-provoking new ideas. The Editors, have compiled contributions by leading researchers and practitioners in finite element analysis (FEA): the result is an authoritative and agenda-setting volume.

Finite element modelling can only be as good as the constitutive laws (material models) used, the means of obtaining and fitting the data for those models, and the accuracy of the boundary conditions. (The latter is of particular importance in cases of contact.) All three questions recieve particular attention in this book, as do aspects such as the interpretation and accuracy of FE outputs, with many practical examples being given. There is a short section on fatigue and failure, where particular concerns and approaches in this challenging area are discussed.

Comprehensive coverage is given to particular issues concerning the problems of working with real elastomers, especially filled materials.

Key features include:

• Constitutive laws for hyperelastic and inelastic aspects of behaviour
• Appropriate test methods
• Curve fitting to obtain constants for constitutive laws
• Interpretation of finite element results
• Modelling of crack growth
• Example applications.

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This is a revised and updated edition of a textbook covering the numerical solution of the complete range of partial differential equations and containing numerous examples and exercises. The changes made here reflect the advances made in finite element methods since publication of the first edition, and include the addition of a new final chapter outlining new areas where finite element methods are applied and the addition of new examples and exercises. ... Read more

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This monograph attempts to define and develop group supermatrices in various ways through theoretical formulations. The author demonstrates that these formulations are especially appropriate when deriving stiffness matrices and equations by the finite element method. He compares conventional procedures to the group supermatrix method, explaining how substantial results can be obtained without having to use lengthy derivations of mathematical expressions when using finite elements with simple or complex symmetry. Complete derivations of equations, illustrated with general and numerical examples, are provided throughout the text. ... Read more

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Emphasizing how one applies FEM to practical engineering problems, this text provides a thorough introduction to the methods of finite analysis and applies these methods to problems of stress analysis, thermal analysis, fluid flow analysis, and lubrication. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

One step at a time
The author has done a great job of developing the finite element method one step at a time, starting with a review of basic matrix algebra.I was able to self-study this book over the period of four months and I have definitely benefited from the experience.I am much more knowledgable about the tasks I perform in my job as a result of studying this book.

Pedagogy good for a difficult subject.
This book is more suitable for self study than most other books on finite elements.I say this after having tried to work with a considerable number of them. ... Read more

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From the preface: "The advent of computers has opened new horizons in the field of engineering design. In the realm of analysis for engineering design the finite element method has emerged as a powerful tool for modeling and analysis of solids and structures of complex geometries and variable material properties in many areas of engineering design such as machine components, pressure vessels, nuclear reactors, off-shore structures, steel and concrete buildings, bridges, towers, automobile components, turbine parts, power plant structures, etc. The text-book literature on the finite element method exists at an introductory level through the new and more advanced level of simple applications. Modeling and analysis of practical problems continue to be developed and published in technical journals. Developments are also taking place in the use of artificial intelligence techniques in expert systems to advise the analysts on the choice of the elements, type of analysis, discretization, etc. for solving complicated problems. It is essential to periodically synthesize all the developments on the finite element method and its applications to practical problems of engineering design and also to identify the future areas of research both in the domains of academic research and industrial applications. Keeping this in mind an advanced study institute was organized at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India during Aug. 1-10, 1988. This volume contains lecture notes prepared by the invited lecturers attending the Advanced Study Institute. It should serve as a ready reference to researchers and practitioners engaged in the finite-element analysis related to engineering design in several disciplines." ... Read more

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Finite element analysis (FEA) has become the dominant tool of analysis in many industrial fields of engineering, particularly in mechanical and aerospace engineering. This process requires significant computational work divided into several distinct phases. What Every Engineer Should Know About Computational Techniques of Finite Element Analysis offers a concise, self-contained treatment of FEA and all of the tools needed for efficient use and practical implementation.

This book provides you with a walk-through of the process from the physical model to the computed solution. Based on the author's thirty years of practical experience in finite element analysis in the shipbuilding, aerospace, and automobile industries, it describes the transformation of the physical problem into a mathematical model, reduction of the model to a more efficient, numerically solvable form, and the solution of the problem using specific computational techniques. The author discusses time and frequency domain solutions as used in practice, as well as the representation of the computed results.

What Every Engineer Should Know About Computational Techniques of Finite Element Analysis serves as a to-the-point guide to using or implementing FEA for both beginners and everyday users who must apply the finite element method to your daily work. The techniques can be easily executed in most available FEA software packages. ... Read more