Have you heard the 1967 hit from the Box Tops, released later by Joe Cocker? Gimme a ticket for an aer-o-plane Ain’t got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home ….. Ok, that dates me – but check it out, it’s a great song. I should have subtitled this […]
Who’s on First; Hooke or Young?
A Good Question I was teaching the “Introduction to Finite Element Analysis” training course in Holland recently. A design engineer on the course came up with a good question relating to a graph I had just sketched up on the whiteboard. I was describing how a material will respond to the loading, in terms […]
New to FEA, where to go, what to do?
Overview of FEA for newcomers So you have got your first job in industry, and one of your initial tasks is to start applying finite element analysis (FEA) to real projects. You might well have even been told that you are now the company expert and are expected to get the expensive new tools working […]
CAD and FEA User Interfaces
in this month’s article I want to compare and contrast the types of user interface found in traditional Finite Element Analysis (FEA) programs and those found in CAD embedded FEA programs. The traditional FEA interfaces have evolved over a very long time and they have their roots in command line and early non-Windows graphical user […]