Chislennye metody issledovaniy predusmatrivayut primenenie EVM dlya vsego protsessa raschyeta, eye fizicheskikh svoystvakh i nagruzkakh do polucheniya okonchatel"nykh rezul"tatov napryazhyennogo i de- formirovannogo sostoyaniy. Primenitel"no k raschyetu konstruktsiy naibolee effektivnym, ochen" udobnym vychislitel"nym metodom resheniya prikladnykh zadach mekhaniki deformiruemogo tvyerdogo tela yavlyaetsya metod konechnykh elementov (MKE). MKE stal fundamental"nym metodom mekhaniki po opredeleniyu napryazhyenno-deformirovannogo sostoyaniya slozhnykh inzhenernykh konstruktsiy.