MATLAB Guide to Finite Elements

This is a book for people who love finite elements and MATLAB I . We will use the popular computer package MATLAB as a matrix calculator for doing finite element analysis. Problems will be solved mainly using MATLAB to carry out the tedious and lengthy matrix calculations in addition to some manual manipulationsespecially when applying the boundary conditions. In particular the steps ofthe finite element method are emphasized in this book. The reader will not find ready-made MATLAB programsfor u