Eine Einführung in alle Aspekte der finiten Elemente, jetzt schon in der 4. Auflage! Geboten wird eine ausgewogene Mischung theoretischer und anwendungsorientierter Kapitel mit vielen Beispielen. Schwerpunkte liegen auf Anwendungen aus der Mechanik, dem Wärmetransport, der Elastizität sowie auf disziplinübergreifenden Problemen (Strömungen von Fluiden, Elektromagnetismus). Eine nützliche und zuverlässige Informationsquelle für Studenten und Praktiker!

KENNETH H. HUEBNER, PhD, is retired from Ford Motor Company, where he was manager of the Computer-Aided Engineering Research Staff. He received his PhD from Purdue University in 1969.

DONALD L. DEWHIRST, PhD, has many years of experience in the aerospace and automotive industries. He is recently retired from Ford Motor Company. He received his PhD from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois.

DOUGLAS E. SMITH, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Division of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. He has been involved with finite element analysis (FEA) for over fifteen years while working at IBM Corporation and Ford Motor Company. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

TED G. BYROM, PhD, is an independent consulting engineer and a former technology consultant with Oryx Energy Co., Inc. He received his PhD in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University.