1. Introduction.

2. Direct approach for Discrete Systems.

3. Strong and Weak Forms for One-dimensional Problems.

4. Approximation of Trial Solutions, Weight Functions and Gauss Quadrature for One-Dimensional Problems.

5. Finite Element Formulation for One-Dimensional Problems.

6. Strong and Weak Forms for Multi-Dimensional Scalar Field Problems.

7. Approximation of Trial Solutions, Weight Functions and Gauss Quadrature for Multi-Dimensional Problems.

8. Finite Element Formulation for Multi Dimensional Scalar Field Problems.

9. Finite Element Formulation for Vector Field Problems – Linear Elasticity.

10. Finite Element Formulation for Beams.

11. Commercial Finite Element Program ABAQUS Tutorials.

Appendix.

Index.