An authority in banking and financial history, D.N. Ghosh has been a bureaucrat, banker, professor and corporate leader. He was secretary to the government of India, and chairman, State Bank of India, and was closely associated with the evolution of banking in India for over three decades as a policy maker and as administrator. After his retirement from State Bank of India in 1989, D.N. Ghosh held the position of chairman of Larsen & Toubro and Philips India. He is the founder-chairman of the credit rating agency ICRA and continues to be associated with several other companies as chairman or director. D.N. Ghosh was the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow in its formative stages, besides being chairman of the Management Development Institute Gurgaon. Since 1991, he has been managing trustee of the Sameeksha Trust, the publishers of Economic & Political Weekly. He is the author of several acclaimed books. Currently, he is president of the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (Ray Society).
<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">This text therefore is designed to prepare undergraduates and practicing engineers with bachelors degrees both to solve their specific problems and to read further in the current finite element literature. It is assumed that the reader has some background in the diverse mathematical fields associated with the finite element method; matrix algebra mechanics variation methods and computer skills. The book is divided into three parts; introduction and background material a description of the method and applications. A relatively simple computer code is included in Appendix I. At the end of each chapter bibliographic information is provided in two sections References and Further Reading. A brief descriptive commentary is included with most ef the references cited. Abbreviations used in the references are summarized in Appendix II.Part A is incorported both to guide the reader to useful texts on the background material and to summarize without detailed derivations the methods and equations that are employed in Parts Band C.</span><br></p>
