Aimed at advanced undergraduate students of mechanical or civil engineering, this volume provides a structural mechanical approach to finite element analysis. The text, which contains over 750 problems, introduces matrix methods and includes FORTRAN algorithms for solving problems.

The Stiffness Method and the Plane Truss; Stationary Principles, the Rayleigh-Ritz Method, and Interpolation; Displacement-Based Elements for Structural Mechanics; Straight-Sided Triangles and Tetrahedra; The Isoparametric Formulation; Coordinate Transformation; Topics in Structural Mechanics; Constraints; Solids of Revolution; Bending of Flat Plates; Shells; Finite Elements in Dynamics and Vibrations; Stress Stiffening and Buckling; Weighted Residual Methods; Heat Conduction and Selected Fluid Problems; An Introduction to Some Nonlinear Problems; Numerical Errors and Convergence; Modeling, Programs, and Programming; Appendices; References; Index.