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LOCAL AND GLOBAL COORDINATES OF A TYPICAL FINITE ELEMENT

Suggested by Lukas Winklerprins

In the finite element method, it is convenient to first describe the behavior of each element independently in terms of the displacements of its nodes; the entire set of elements is then connected together by establishing
certain dependencies between appropriate node displacements.