MATLAB Codes for Finite Element Analysis Solids and Structures /

• Main Author: Ferreira, A. J. M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and its Applications, 157
• Subjects: Engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computational intelligence.; Structural mechanics.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Mechanical engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Computational Intelligence.; Structural Mechanics.

This book illustrates how MATLAB compact and powerful programming framework can be very useful in the finite element analysis of solids and structures. The book shortly introduces finite element concepts and an extensive list of MATLAB codes for readers to use and modify. The book areas range from v...

Table of Contents:

• Short introduction to MATLAB
• Discrete systems
• Analysis of bars
• Analysis of 2D trusses
• Trusses in 3D space
• Bernoulli beams
• 2D frames
• Analysis of 3D frames
• Analysis of grids
• Analysis of Timoshenko beams
• Plane stress
• Analysis of Mindlin plates
• Laminated plates.