Thank you very much for the replies. I've managed to get my hands on the Roark book, and I am looking into the others. These responses have been very helpful thank you for taking the time to post them!
I'm a beginner (started studying FEA a day ago), and I'm looking to be able to do the finite element method by hand, to find displacements/stresses for different modes, in order to verify the results given by PATRAN (sorry I'm pretty sure all of my terminology here is correct). I've found a lot...
