The finite element method is a powerful numerical technique that is used in all major engineering industries - in this video we'll explore how it works. We'll look at why it's useful to split the body ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 79, No. 272 (OCTOBER 2010), pp. 2001-2032 (32 pages) We derive in this paper a unified framework for a priori and a posteriori error ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 45, No. 2 (2007), pp. 746-769 (24 pages) We derive a new formula for the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of stiffness matrices obtained by applying P₁ ...

Princeton's Dr. Jean H. Prévost and Serguei Bagrianski have released a book with World Scientific, entitled, An Introduction to Matrix Structural Analysis and Finite Element Methods. Based on a course ...

The finite element method (FEM) is increasingly used for structural calculations. For the most part, FEM is used to calculate structural deformation, stress, fatigue life, vibration, or temperature.

Ryan P. Leary, MD, and colleagues used maxillofacial CT of a healthy patient undergoing rhinoplasty with 1-mm axial resolution to create a multicomponent finite element model (FEM) using 3-D medical ...