Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Applications with ANSYS: United States Edition - Hardcover

Moaveni, Saeed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131112023 ISBN 13: 9780131112025

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For courses in Finite Element Analysis.

Unique in approach and content, this text presents the theory of finite element analysis, explores its application as a design/modeling tool, and explains in detail how to use ANSYS intelligently and effectively.

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Unique in approach and content, this book presents the theory of finite element analysis, explores its application as a design/modeling tool, and explains in detail how to use ANSYS intelligently and effectively.

FEATURES

• Provides comprehensive ― but not overwhelming ― coverage of finite element theory.
• Helps readers learn how to use ANSYS quickly and effectively.
  • Shows how to use ANSYS step by step to model a physical problem.
• Integrates ANSYS throughout. Each chapter:
  • First discusses the relevant basic theory and then demonstrates it using simple problems with hand-calculations.
  • Follows with examples that are solved using ANSYS.
  • Presents all exercises in the same manner. Some exercises require manual calculations, while others, more complex in nature, require the use of ANSYS.
• Discusses various sources of error that can contribute to wrong results.
  • Emphasizes how to manually verify Finite Element Analysis (FEA) findings.
  • Devotes a section of approaches for verifying ANSYS results at the end of selected chapters.
• Features a number of open-ended design problems at the end of Chapters. 7, 8, and 10.
• Devotes the concluding chapter to design optimization and parametric programming with ANSYS.
• Offers a brief review of fundamental principles in solid mechanics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics.
• Appendices give mechanical and thermophysical properties of some common materials used in engineering.
• Provides a list of objectives and a summary for each chapter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131112023
• ISBN 13: 9780131112025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 822