Lectures on The Finite Element Method

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print, microfilm or any other means without written permission from the Acknowledgements THE AUTHOR EXPRESSES his deep gratitude to Professor Ramana-than for his very kind invitation to deliver these lectures at Bangalore, as part of the T. v Preface OUR BASIC AIM has been to present some of the mathematical aspects of the finite element method, as well as some applications of the finite element method for solving problems in Elasticity. This is why important topics, such as curved boundaries, mixed and hybrid methods , time-dependent problems, etc..., are not covered here. No attempt has been made to give an exhaustive bibliography.