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 | | Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, 4th Edition by Robert D. Cook, David S. Malkus, Michael E. Plesha, Robert J. Witt ISBN-10: 9780471356059 ISBN-10: 0-471-35605-0 ISBN-13: 9780471356059 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-35605-9 Hardcover 2001-10-17 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect developments since the third edition, with an emphasis on structural mechanics. Coverage is up-to-date without making the treatment highly specialized and mathematically difficult. Basic theory is clearly explained to the reader, while advanced techniques are left to thousands of references available, which are cited in the text. | ||
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Good The book is very good for beginers in FEM. It doesn't go very much into details. | ||
Great It explains the the hard concepts in a nice way. But the material covers the great extent of FEA. It is good for reference. Murat Surucu | ||
Another student prospective The comments left are interesting in that all the people teaching from it find it useful, and all the students find it frustrating...there is a trend here! I agree that the explanations are great in detail and the content practical, but at a graduate level with minimal support from the professor and no TA available, not having examples or solutions (to the odds or evens at the very least) is infuriating. After spending close to $100 for this text, I had to go out to buy another with some problems to make it through my course. Two stars for readability, will pile the other three onto the review for my other text. If a professor recommends this book for his course, my suggestion would be to go talk to some fellow students who have already taken the course to be sure you know what you are signing up for! | ||
A collection of papers at best I am a graduate student of solid mechanics and I have read quite a few books on FEA. Of all the textbooks I have read-this is clearly the worst. The authors don't spend any time to make the material coherent and organized. They seem to have published this book just for the sake of establishing their names in the field. It is basically a collection of research papers on the subject. The worst part of the book is that the authors use excessive verbiage to describe extremely inportant concepts with little or no mathematics. This leaves the readers confused and disoriented. This book is not for those looking for an introductory text and is useless to even those experienced in the field. Avoid this book. | ||
Not an undergraduage text This book was used to 'introduce' us to finite element analysis. To say the least, the book is very hard to follow. For an undergraduate text book, I don't recommend it at all. The problems are very difficult and assume you have a lot of knowledge on other subjects. Also there are close to no examples. This would be a great book for graduate classes or those seriously interested in the theory, but not for the intro introductory class, unless you have a super great professor. Because of my bad experience with the book, and how I found it difficult to grasp, I give it only two stars. | ||