Known for its unique approach and detailed, carefully selected examples problems and home work problems, this text comprehensively covers a wide range of engineerign areas. This makes the book appropriate for all engineering majors and underscores the wide range of uses FEM has in the professional world. New to this edition Approximately 30% of the problems have been revised or are new to this edition. The previous Chapter 3, Second-Order Boundary Value Problems, has been split into two chapters for the third edition. Chapter 3 is now Second-Order Differential Equations in One-Dimension: Finite Element Models, and Chapter 4 is now Second-Order Differential Equations in One-Dimension: Applications. A text Web site located at https://www.mhhe.com/reddy3e hosts solutions to end-of-chapter problems, executables, supplementary chapter on FEM1D and FEM2D computer programs and general textbook information. Features Worked examples are said to be one of the best features of this text. The examples are detailed, carefully selected and a number of examples that show FEM applications are included in this text. Strong coverage of FEMs mathematical foundations. Comprehensive coverage of material from general field problems as well heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and solid and structural mechanics (bars, beams, frames, plane elasticity and plate bending). The authors writing style is clear and his explanation plenty. The text includes a variety of problems including some for hand calculation, some to be solved using the computer, and others of the class project variety, which can be done with commercial FEM packages if the professor so chooses. The problems are a major feature of this text.
