Welcome to the FEM Eyewitness site
The Eyewitness Project is an on-line catalyst, funded by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. On these pages, we have poked at a few points and are standing back to listen to those who have made it happen. On-line gathering of information offers unprecedented opportunities for sharing and disseminating information. Part of our task is making the interaction easy for participants. The other part is encouraging the stories and reminiscences and, hopefully, identifying and locating significant records and reports, which demonstrate the evolution of specific areas of technology.
This site, produced by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, displays a timeline of events ocurring between 1941 and the present day relating to the finite element method, a powerful and important computational scheme. People who were involved in the research and application of the finite element method are asked to add their memories to the timeline. The site also reproduces a bibliography of books and monographs on the finite element method published by A. K. Noor in ASME Applied Mechanics Review in 1991.