Once reserved for the aerospace and automotive industries, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has become ubiquitous in general industrial applications because of its effectiveness in digitally modeling ...

Professor of Mechanics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. It's easy to construct finite-element models with errors. And it's just as easy to correct them, when you know how. The first step in a ...

CompoTech has been awarded funding under the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Innovation Vouchers – Call IV programme ...

A very basic example of this can be noted in certain oldest applications of finite elements. More than 2000 years earlier, geometers were keen on finding out the circumference and area of a circle.

Danfoss Power Solutions (Ames, Iowa, U.S.) wanted to reduce cost and lead time challenges with a machined aluminum bracket by redesigning it to use carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) made with its ...