Jamshid Ghaboussi is Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has over 45 years of experience in teaching and research in Computational Mechanics, Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing in Engineering Applications. David Pecknold is a Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has more than 40 years teaching, consulting and university and industrial research experience in structural mechanics, dynamics and development of mathematical models and computer simulation techniques. Dr. Xiping Wu is a Principal Engineer in Civil and Marine Engineering with Shell International Exploration & Production Inc.
An excellent introduction to non-linear computational mechanics addressed to Masters students interested in the mechanics of structures. -- Laurent Delannay, Universite Catholique de Louvain ...a useful combination of material that I would refer to in both my teaching of undergraduate/masters students and to introduce PhD students to particular aspects in computational mechanics. -- William Coombs, Durham University This book is intended to provide much of that necessary background in an accessible form. The book can serve as a reference for engineers, analysts and software developers in practice, as well as a graduate course text. -- Jan Sladek, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol 1381 An excellent introduction to non-linear computational mechanics addressed to Masters students interested in the mechanics of structures. -- Laurent Delannay, Universite catholique de Louvain ...a useful combination of material that I would refer to in both my teaching of undergraduate/masters students and to introduce PhD students to particular aspects in computational mechanics. -- William Coombs, Durham University This book is intended to provide much of that necessary background in an accessible form. The book can serve as a reference for engineers, analysts and software developers in practice, as well as a graduate course text. -- Jan Sladek, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol 1381