What’s the real story behind the transition from Low Cycle to High Cycle fatigue? Video : 60 minutes presentation and Q and A The terms High Cycle and Low cycle fatigue are used extensively – but what is the real difference? Is the transition an arbitrary number; 1000 cycles, 100,000 cycles. As […]
Session 11: Units in FEA – some horror stories!
Units can cause a lot of errors in FE Analysis… Video : 60 minutes presentation and curated Q and A Conversion between unit systems is one of the biggest problems The errors can be due to simple ‘finger trouble’ Or They can be very difficult physical units US (old Imperial) to Metric is probably the most […]
Session 13: FEA models under or over constrained!
Video : 60 minutes presentation and curated Q and A Over-constrained, under-constrained or somewhere in the middle with FEA! Boundary conditions are probably the most difficult aspect of static FEA Underconstrained models: It is easy to forget to apply adequate constraints – Rigid Body Modes result! Over constraining is more subtle: The physics of the […]
Plane Stress and Plane Strain – simplifying models
FETrainingTONY ABBEY Premium CoursesFree ResourcesArticlesNAFEMS CoursesCorporate TrainingAbout TonySign inJoin free library → ← Back to Articles TONY ABBEY · MODELLING FOUNDATIONS Plane Stress and Plane Strain – simplifying models How two-dimensional assumptions can simplify structural models and help you investigate local stresses. Tony Abbey · Originally published May 30, 2019 Background A previous article explained […]
A data driven world
FETrainingTONY ABBEY Premium CoursesFree ResourcesArticlesNAFEMS CoursesCorporate TrainingAbout TonySign inJoin free library → ← Back to Articles TONY ABBEY · ANALYSIS PRACTICE AND ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVES A data driven world An FEA article by Tony Abbey Letting woes I have been letting a very small property in the UK for many years now. It is always a […]
FEA Demos and Benchmarks
FETrainingTONY ABBEY Premium CoursesFree ResourcesArticlesNAFEMS CoursesCorporate TrainingAbout TonySign inJoin free library → ← Back to Articles TONY ABBEY · ANALYSIS PRACTICE AND ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVES FEA Demos and Benchmarks An FEA article by Tony Abbey The last few months of this year have been busy. I have taught live classes to Rolls-Royce in Derby, UK, at […]
