<p>Hello!
I am going to learn about the displacemt,(matrix stifness method). Do you have any good books for a beginner? I am only starting my second year in engineering, so I am looking for some very basic material, not hardcore FEm and stuff like that. </p>
<p>What I really want is something that explains the theory behind the method in a good way!</p>
<p>Any book recommandations?</p>
<p>Cheers!=)</p>
<p>Wikipedia has a fairly good article on it, actually.</p>
<p>[Direct</a> stiffness method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_stiffness_method]Direct”>Direct stiffness method - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Someone else might have a better suggestion for an actual elementary structural analysis book… My undergrad one was <em>terrible</em>, and my other structural analysis books were from grad school so they’re kind of an intellectual punch in the face.</p>
<p>Thank you!=) But can you please tell me what the terrible book was named so I don’t buy it?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s out-of-print, and the publisher skimped on the binding so everyone’s books fell apart by the end of the semester. I doubt you’ll run into one as you search; they’re probably all unsellable.</p>
<p>Now that I think of it, there was a pretty good matrix structural analysis book by Ronald Sack that might help you out.</p>