A variety of structural simulation software programs have proven valuable in recent years by enabling composite component manufacturers to produce highly optimized products in less time and at lower ...

Laminated fiber-reinforced composite materials are being used in more and more engineering applications. These materials have excellent strength-to-weight ratios and the manufacturing processes that ...

Development of finite elements from variational principles and application to static stress analysis. Introduction to techniques for transient and generalized field problems.

Professor of Mechanics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. It's easy to construct finite-element models with errors. And it's just as easy to correct them, when you know how. The first step in a ...