'The new edition (of the book) is carefully structured to provide the necessary theoretical background to easily understand and to adapt the same to model and to solve 1D, 2D, and 3D mechanical engineering problems in the structural and thermal areas.' Professor Raghu Echempati, Kettering University
1. Energy and Galerkin Approaches; 2. Gaussian Elimination; 3. One-dimensional Elasticity; 4. One-dimensional Heat Conduction; 5. Trusses; 6. Two- and Three- Dimensional Elasticity; 7. Axisymmetric Problems in Elasticity; 8. 2D / 3D Heat Conduction and Other Scalar Field Problems; 9. Elements in Bending; 10. Structural Vibration; 11. Miscellaneous Topics; 12. Preprocessing and Postprocessing.