The birth of variational calculus and the principle of virtual work goes back to the 17th and 18th century, and the first draft of a discrete variational method with “elementwise” triangular shape functions was given by Leibniz (1697). First analytical...
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Stein, E. (2014). History of the Finite Element Method – Mathematics Meets Mechanics – Part I: Engineering Developments (pp. 399–442). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_22
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