An engineer with limited FEA experience and no library of best practices to guide him tried to mesh a thin-walled bike frame with solid elements rather than using more appropriate beam elements. Most ...

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are often utilized to express space- and time-dependent problems in physics, however, when applied in geometry and for the solving of other related problems, ...

(MENAFN- Robotics & Automation News) The FEA (finite element analysis) software market sits at $7.82 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach $14.72 billion by 2031. Structural analysis takes 55.83% ...

Departments to which FEA is more recent may not have yet established a set of best practices. To jump-start that effort, Bob Williams, product manager at Algor Inc., Pittsburgh, makes these ...

In 2013, Boeing rolled out the first 787-9 Dreamliner, the newest member of the super-efficient 787 family. In order to power this massive aircraft, Rolls-Royce designed the state of the art Trent ...

All the vendors of finite element analysis (FEA) software would agree that choosing a particular FEA package is a major decision for an engineering department. Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen Inc., now ...

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was developed in the Aircraft Industry in the late 1950's as a way of handling the more complex structures that were evolving. Finite Element analysis has been used in ...