Contents
Preface iii
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 1
Chapter 2 BASIC EQUATIONS FROM LINEAR ELASTICITY THEORY 9
References 18
Chapter3 STRUCTURAL IDEALIZATION 19
Chapter 4 METHODS OF DETERMINING STIFFNESS 27
Chapter 5 DERIVATION OF STIFFNESS PROPERTIES 40
Chapter 6 DERIVATION OF STIFFNESS PROPERTIES 76
Chapter 7 FORMULATION OF FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 109
Chapter 8APPLICATION OF FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 133
Appendix A MATRIX ALGEBRA 168
Appendix B REA CTIVE FORCES FOR RESTRAINED BEAM 178
Appendix C PROPERTIES OF SECTIONS 182
Appendix D SOLUTION OF SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION 186
Appendix E SI UNITS FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS 192
Appendix F BIBLIOGRAPHY 194
Appendix G COMPUTER CODES 196
Index 197