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Among the vast number of numerical tools that can be used to solve boundary-value or eigenvalue problems the Finite Element Method, usually abbreviated FEM, has been the most popular over the past four to five decades. This fact alone justifies that the method is introduced here, but more important to me is that the derivation of the method involves many of the basic concepts and topics of continuum mechanics, which may make the usefulness of learning continuum mechanics even more obvious—at least this is my hope.
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Byskov, E. (2013). About the Finite Element Method. In: Elementary Continuum Mechanics for Everyone. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 194. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5766-0_22
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