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Contents
 Introduction
 Preliminary discussion
 Finite Element
 Method
 Adaptation of the
 FEM
 Appendix
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The Series
 Part 1
 Part 2
 Part 3 (coming soon)

Appendix

Bibliography

Structural approaches

The structural approach is comparable in some ways with some computing methods, famous in the field of the video games. The most interesting articles are:

2D Surface Deformation by Max I. Fomitchev http://www.gamasutra.com/features
Devil in the Blue-Faceted Dress: Real-Time Cloth Animation by Jeff Lander http://www.gamasutra.com/features

Some other interesting resources could be found:

Site collected resources about particle systems http://www.particlesystems.com
Game which used the structural approach to find stress in bridges http://www.bridgebuilder.de

Finite Element Software

Web site of the ANSYS software http://www.ansys.com
Web site of the ROBOT software http://www.robot97.com
Web site of the C Mold software http://www.cmold.com

Resources about FEM theory

Web Site, called FEMUR, about the FEM (FEMUR = Finite Element Method Universal Resources) http://femur.wpi.edu
The Finite Element Method in Engineering Science O.C. Zienkiewicz - Mc Graw Hill - 1967  
FEM/BEM Notes P. Hunter, A. Pullan - Department of the Engineering Science, University of Auckland - 2001  
Accurate Real Time Deformable Object by D.L James and D.K Pai - Univeristy of British Columbia  

Stiffness matrix of a cube with eight nodes and three degrees of freedom by nodes

Expression of the matrix hyp.stiffnessmatrix.txt
Maple file used to obtain the matrix hyp.stiffnessmatrix.mws