內容簡介

This book is a comprehensive and easy to understand workbook. It utilizes step-by-step instructions to help guide readers to learn finite element simulations. Twenty seven case studies are used throughout the book. Many of these cases are industrial or research projects the reader builds from scratch. An accompanying DVD contains all the files readers may need if they have trouble. Relevant background knowledge is reviewed whenever necessary. To be efficient, the review is conceptual rather than mathematical, short, yet comprehensive. Key concepts are inserted whenever appropriate and summarized at the end of each chapter. Additional exercises or extension research problems are provided as homework at the end of each chapter. 

內容目錄

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Sketching
Chapter 3 2D Simulations
Chapter 4 3D Solid Modeling
Chapter 5 3D Simulations
Chapter 6 Surface Models
Chapter 7 Line Models
Chapter 8 Optimization
Chapter 9 Meshing
Chapter 10 Buckling and Stress Stiffening
Chapter 11 Modal Analyses
Chapter 12 Transient Structural Simulations
Chapter 13 Nonlinear Simulations
Chapter 14 Nonlinear Materials
Chapter 15 Explicit Dynamics