In this third and final installment of guidelines for getting an initial FEA program contributing to the design department, Ted Fryberger, president and instructor of DeepSoft Inc., Columbia, Md. (www ...
Finite-element analysis, or the finite-element method (FEM) as we will call it, hides plenty of traps for uninitiated users. Errors that come from idealization and meshing a part can be bad enough to ...