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In recent years, Digital Engineering contributor, NAFEMS instructor and FETraining.net developer Tony Abbey has put together a list of practical engineering simulation case studies, walk-thrus and software overviews for a variety of FEA software tools. Watch as ESRD reproduces a selected set of his 3D detailed stress analysis case studies, and see how we compare with Digital Engineering's published results!
This past week at ASIP 2017, ESRD provided a training course titled "How to use the Crack Propagation Analysis Tool for 3D Crack Simulation", presented a track presentation "Pros and Cons of 3D Crack Growth Simulation using Finite Elements" and exhibited at our booth. Read the summary of events [...]
In one of my conference presentations, I discussed variational crimes, noting that using point forces and point constraints in finite element analysis serves as examples of such crimes. In the question-and-answer session, I was asked: “If using point constraints is a variational crime, then how is it possible that the structure designed to refloat the Costa Concordia was full of those crimes and yet it worked just fine.” This question presented an opportunity for me to explain that finite element modeling (FEM) and finite element analysis (FEA) are complementary methods when analysts correctly understand their respective domains of application and use them accordingly. However, problems arise when FEM is used outside its scope, which is an all too frequent error.
“StressCheck’s quality control features have given us the tool we need to perform detailed … bonded joint analysis with confidence that the results are accurate.”
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