We'll look at why it's useful to split the body being analysed into small elements and the different elements types that can be used. We'll also cover the key concept behind the finite element method, ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2009), pp. 1421-1444 (24 pages) The performance of finite element computation depends strongly on the quality of the geometric mesh and the ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS, Part 2 (1995), pp. 2068-2077 (10 pages) This paper presents a model updating method based on experimental receptances. The presented ...