Why is a Triangular Element Stiffer?
Somehow I never used triangular elements. Not that I knew [...]
How Accurate is Finite Element Analysis?
FEA accuracy is a topic that often provokes discussions. Without [...]
Nonlinear geometry benchmark
During last week I’ve posted a tip in the FEA Guild about [...]
Stress singularity – an honest discussion
Arjen asked me recently about stress singularity. There are quite [...]
FEA results verification with hand calculations: stability
Last time I described 5 steps to FEA results verification. Among [...]
5 steps of FEA results verification
Whatever we design life will verify it at the end… [...]
Changing active forces for enforced deformations and vice versa
I have seen many mistakes where people wrongly changed enforced [...]
Boundary conditions influence on static design – case study
Each day we do simplifications to boundary conditions just to [...]
Design your silos with FEA – it pays!
Designing steel silos with analytical approach always yields very conservative [...]
Full guide on how to model shell in FEA
This is a start of a design course I will [...]