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The mechanical analysis of solids by analytical methods runs into difficulty as soon as the geometry becomes complicated. The finite element method (FEM) is a general numerical technique for constructing approximate solutions in space to such boundary value problems.
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Curnier, A. (1994). Spatial Discretisation by the Finite Element Method. In: Computational Methods in Solid Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1112-6_3
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