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This text is intended to be used as a training guide for students and professionals. This text covers Pro/MECHANICA and the lessons proceed in a pedagogical fashion to guide you from constructing basic truss elements to generating three-dimensional solid elements from solid models. This text takes a hands-on exercise intensive approach to all the important Finite Element Analysis techniques and concepts. This textbook contains a series of ten tutorial style lessons designed to introduce beginning FEA users to Pro/MECHANICA. The basic premise of this book is the more designs you create using Pro/MECHANICA, the Better you learn the software. With this in mind, each lesson introduces a new set of commands and concepts, building on previous lessons.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Direct Stiffness Method
2. Truss Elements in Two-Dimensional Spaces
3. 2D Trusses in MS Excel and the Truss Solver
4. Pro/MECHANICA Two-Dimensional Truss Analysis
5. Three-Dimensional Truss Analysis
6. Basic Beam Analysis
7. Beam Analysis Tools
8. Statically Indeterminate Structures
9. Two Dimensional Solid Elements
10. Three-Dimensional Solid Elements
11. Axisymmetric and Thin Shell Elements
12. Dynamic Modal Analysis
Index