Welcome to the author-maintained website for The Finite Element Method: Basic Concepts and Applications, Second Edition, the fundamental book on Finite element method.

This website contains finite element programs written in FEMLAB, MAPLE, MathCad, MATLAB, FORTRAN, C++, and JAVA – the most popular programming languages—to accompany one of the first FEM textbooks to include finite element software.

Note: The computer programs contained here are available to download only onto one computer for your personal, non-commercial home or educational use only, provided you do not delete or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.  Neither title nor any intellectual property rights to any material at this site including, but not limited to any files contained in or generated by the software, and accompanying data (together, the "Software") are transferred to you. All material at this site remains the exclusive property of the copyright owners, who possess full and complete title. You may not resell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise convert the Software into other forms. This website is maintained solely by Darrell W. Pepper and Xiuling Wang — and they are responsible for its content. This website contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources.  Reasonable efforts have been made to present reliable data and information.