Session 3: Free Body Diagrams – what are they and why do they go wrong? 30 minutes presentation, 30 minutes curated Q and A Free body diagrams are used in structural analysis to try to reduce the problem to its simplest description. Where does the load get applied and where does the load get […]
Who are you calling dumb? 1D and 2D elements
I like using analogies. A sausage on a barbecue will always split in the longitudinal direction because hoop stresses are greater than axial stresses in a pressure vessel. I always describe FEA elements as having a certain level of intelligence! 3D continuum elements are what I call, ‘smart’. They understand what happening inside their volume. […]