Theory Manual Version 4.8
Last Updated: November 7, 2024
Steve Maas (steve.maas@utah.edu)
Michael Herron (michael.herron@utah.edu)
Dr. Jeffrey Weiss (jeff.weiss@utah.edu)
Dr. Gerard Ateshian (ateshian@columbia.edu)
Michael Herron (michael.herron@utah.edu)
Dr. Jeffrey Weiss (jeff.weiss@utah.edu)
Dr. Gerard Ateshian (ateshian@columbia.edu)
Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories, University of Utah
72 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2646
Salt Lake City, Utah
72 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2646
Salt Lake City, Utah
Development of the FEBio project is supported in part by a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (R01GM083925).

Table of contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Continuum Mechanics
- Chapter 3 The Nonlinear FE Method
- Chapter 4 Element Library
- Chapter 5 Constitutive Models
- Chapter 6 Dynamics
- Chapter 7 Contact and Coupling
- Chapter 8 Optimization
- Appendix A Tensor Calculus
- Bibliography