Structural Analysis by the Finite Element Method
摘要
Stress and strain generated in structural components with complicated shapes and boundary conditions are often impossible to solve with only theoretical methods from structural mechanics and strength of materials. With rapid progress in computers and computational science, numerical analysis methods have been increasingly applied to such problems. Among various numerical analysis methods, the finite element method is widely used as it is highly applicable to structural analysis of complicated shapes and can accurately predict the local distribution of stress and strain.