Table of Contents

1. Part I: Finite Element Formulation.
2. Introduction.
3. Finite Element Equations for Heat Transfer.
4. FEM for Solid Mechanics Problems.
5. A Finite Element Program.
6. Part II: Finite Element Processor.
7. Finite Element Model.
8. Elastic Material.
9. Elements.
10. Numerical Integration.
11. Two
12. dimensional Isoparametric Elements.
13. Implementation of 2D Quadratic Element.
14. Three
15. dimensional Isoparametric Elements.
16. Implementation of 3D Quadratic Element.
17. Assembly and Solution.
18. Direct Equation Solver.
19. Iterative Equation Solver.
20. Load Data and Load Vector Assembly.
21. Stress Increment, Residual Vector and Results.
22. Elastic–Plastic Problems. Part III: Mesh Generation.
23. Mesh Generator.
24. Two
25. dimensional Mesh Generators.
26. Generation of Three
27. dimensional Meshes by Sweeping.
28. Pasting Mesh Blocks.
29. Mesh Transformations.
30. Copying, Writing and Reading Mesh Blocks.
31. Part IV: Visualization of Meshes and Results.
32. Visualizer.
33. Visualization Scene Graph.
34. Surface Geometry.
35. Edge and Face Subdivision.
36. Color Scale, Mouse Interation and Lights.
37. Appendices: Data for Finite Element Solver; Data for Mesh Generation; Data for Visualizer.

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