The web site for Alan Morris's book 'A Practical Guide to Reliable Finite Element Modelling
That book is a first attempt, in book form, at putting together a methodology for limiting the impact of error and uncertainty on the accuracy of finite element analyses. As it is a first attempt I'd like to know what you think about the book and have your views on how to undertake error controlled finite element analyses. So please get in touch and send any comments to my email at a.j.morris@cranfield.ac.uk. Comments can take the form of additional ideas and concepts that are omitted from the book, critiques of the ideas in the book, either positive or negative or simply corrections for errors made by the author
In order to set the process of error and uncertainty control within the broad context of what is possible the book introduces the theorems or Church-Turing and Godel. The basic idea of bringing these ideas to the debate is to try to define what can be expected from a finite element analysis when compared to the behaviour of an in-service structure. However in a closely reasoned argument Jon Smith explains why he is not in complete in agreement with some of the views advanced in the opening chapter of the book. Jon's comments can be seen by clicking on the Jon's Discussion icon below.
Having given some thought to Jon's comments I have attached my response to his remarks in a PDF file which can be opened by clicking on the Author's Response icon below.