Practical Finite Element Analysis
for Mechanical Engineers

If you’re an aerospace engineer (or from any other industry, for that matter) working in FEA then you MUST read this book. Over 600 beautifully-crafted pages, jammed with a huge amount of information on all sorts of FEA-related topics, from the basics, through model build, analysis and verification, plus loads more. This is definitely the most impressive FEA book I have ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot). Whether you’re a newbie getting to grips with the techniques or a time-served analyst, looking for the specifics on a wide range of topics, you should be looking at this. I’ve never seen such a great balance between theory and practice before. Well done to the author - there’s some real hard work in this, and it really shows!

What I have found unique to this book, is it focus on, solid modelling techniques as opposed to the "simple command teaching" of most books, and its focus on the theory of FEM. I highly recommend this book to anyone involved with FEA.

I want to recommend this book to anyone who uses finite element analysis (beginners or advanced) because you will find many useful answers and practical examples that I did not found, until now, in other similar books. It is very well structured both theory and examples.

This is like the FEM bible that all FEA analysts need. Good job in putting all that practical knowledge together. I can’t wait to increase my FEM knowledge and skills with this.

When it comes to Finite Element Analysis, we still have a big lack of bibliographies able to bring real aspects of the daily activities of an Engineering department. Dominique’s initiative on his FEA book is amazing, because he is bringing his huge experience in solving engineering problems in the Industry into the book, not just in a theorical aspect, but practical approach in how to use Finite Element Method to deal with structural challenges during product development. The book is filling out the lack we have, dealing with good practices, real examples and the theory of the method. For sure, this book is increasing the opportunity for new FEA users learn the method in the right direction, and to FEA experts improve their approach.

I had the pleasure to meet Dominique on the C-Series/A220 development program in 2010. I discovered a gentleman with profound FEA knowledge and a dedicated professional applying rigorous methodology to his work. I was honored to be asked to participate as a reviewer for his book, which will become a reference in both industry and academia. His book is well structured and provides insight in the FE theory and practical, technical approach to real world problems. I am very enthusiastic for his project and I am sure the reader will keep this book in the short list of references to be kept close at hand.