J. Nakasone; T.A. Stolarski; S. Yoshimoto

The aims and scope of this text are described later. The book is very much the result of collaboration between the three co-authors: Professors Nakasone and Yoshimoto of Tokyo University of Science, Japan and Professor Stolarski of Brunel University, United Kingdom. This collaboration started some time ago and initially covered only research topics of interest to the authors. Exchange of academic staff and research students has taken place and archive papers have been published. However, being an academic does not mean research only. The other important activity of any academic is to teach students on degree courses. Since the authors are involved in teaching students various aspects of engineering analyses using ANSYS, it is only natural that the need for a textbook about aiding students to solve problems with ANSYS has been identified.

The ethos of the book, worked out during a number of discussion meetings, aims at assisting in learning the use of ANSYS through examples taken from engineering practice. It is hoped that the book will meet its primary aim and provide practical help to those who embark on the road leading to effective use of ANSYS in solving engineering problems.

This second edition of the book has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest version of ANSYS. New solved examples have been added and the use of the Workbench module is explained through illustrative engineering problems.