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FE Tutorials and Introductory Material

We have had many requests from FE novices for online FE tutorials, and more
generally, how to get started with the Finite Element Method. Here are some links
which may be useful. We would be grateful to have your suggestions on how to
enlarge this section so as to help FE beginners. Your tips will be acknowledged.

Some general comments:

 For some the best and quickest method to learn FEM is through a lecture
course at an educational institute. However this may not always be a practical
alternative.
 For the old-fashioned types :-) "books are best", ie some learn more from
slow absorption of the printed page than from a programmed tutorial. There is
no one ideal beginner's text - everyone has their own favourite. Books which
include programming examples (which can be implemented) are of benefit to
beginners.
 Write your own simple FE programs based on worked examples, compile and
then solve your own example problems. An FE library (source code) of
common operations can be a good way to get started.
 Search the web (and this site) for course material, for example search under
"finite element tutorial", or similar.
 Many of the freeware and commercial programs listed in IFER include tutorial
introductions which could benefit FE novices. Please let us know if you have
found any of these to be especially useful.

Tutorials

 FELIPE. FE tutorial package for mathematics and engineering students. See

also this internal link.
 FEM/BEM Notes, an introduction to the basic FEM (and BEM) method by
Peter Hunter and Andrew Pullan of the Dept. of Engineering Science,
Auckland University. Postscript and pdf versions of the notes may be
downloaded. The contents include studies of heat conduction, linear elasticity
and modal analysis. Examples illustrating the text are set using the CMISS
FE package (in binary only).
 Vector Space Applications Workbook. Not really a beginner's handbook, but it
provides an excellent link between theory and object-oriented FE
programming with many examples. Suitable for intermediate level study. See
our reviews of the VSP Workbook.
 A FEMM tutorial complements the FEMM program.
 NIST Online Turorials includes some tutorial information on various programs.