Errata: An Introduction to MSA and FEM

Last Updated: February 29, 2020

p 23, Paragraph 3: “In this text, we will use superscripts to and subscripts to…”
p 34, exChpt2: line 7 should read “x3” instead of “x2”; line 16 should read “-9000” instead of “9000”
p 39, eq (3.4): should read [1 : nen × ndf] rather than [1 : nen]
p 46, eq (3.15) & p 46, eq (3.22): KUU[2,4] should read -6667, rather than 6667
p 62, Pu table: Py column entry of -9000 should be in row 3 rather than row 2
p 66, ied table: third row of index e should read as 3 rather than 2
p 70, Paragraph 2: insert “node 2 of” element 3. Remove first two rows of table and change 9547 to 3840.
p 72, Paragraph 2: ied and ien should be switched to read addForce(Fe,ied,ien,idu,nen)
p 74, First vector should read {0 0 0 -9000}; second vector should read {-20000 0 -20480 -24360}
p 75, de table; last two rows of column {3} should read -0.513 and -3.982
p 76, getIntern function: line 21 should read: sx(e) = F(e)/A;
p 98, eq (5.48): the displacement array should be ordered {w, θx, θy}
p 104, exChpt5 script: line 26 should read prop = zeros(nel,16); insert after line 30: prop(3,10)= 1e12;
p 118, eq (6.18): should read “ – 2EId2” rather than “ + 2EId2”
p 126, eq (6.48), (6.49), and (6.50): all five occurrences of “– P” should be “+ P”
p 144, eq (7.32): the denominator of the term for c1≠0 should read c1 rather than c2
p 161, eq (7.95): replace 1/2 with 1/4
p 167, genShape function: line 12, insert at end “/4”; Line 13, replace x’ with [xi(2);xi(1)]
p 172, eq (7.115): T(x,0) should be T(x,y)
p 191, First sentence should read “Hooke’s Law” instead of “Young’s law”
p 203, eq (8.73) & p 204, eq (8.81): Third row, the first two entries should read B21, B11.
p 204, eq (8.79): replace 1/2 with ¼
p 213, sigPrinc function: line 6 should read, radius = sqrt(0.25*(sig(1)-sig(2))^2+sig(3)^2);
p 213, sigPrinc function: line 10 should add “0.5*” in front of “atan…”
p 216, eq (8.110): second equation should read “n(L,y)” rather than “n(0,y)”
p 234, eq (9.9) & p 235, eq (9.15): subscripts “yz” and “xz” should be switched for the γ and τ terms.
p 239, eq (9.25): the summation should be over “Mx” rather than “My”
p 242, eq (9.33): mx and my terms should be switched ( m x and m y stay as is)
p 252, B_shear function: line 1 should read: “BV” rather than “BM”
p 253, rotPlane function: line 7 should read: xe(nen-i+1,:) = xe(nen-i+1,:) - xe(1,:);
p 267, Paragraph 4: replace “longitudinal” with “transverse”; eq (9.91): replace u(x,L/2) with v(x,L/2)
p 276, getIntern function: line 68 & 70, replace de with dm

Errata in Introduction to MSA and FEM