Elastic Support: An Elastic Support defines an elastic foundation between the selected faces of a part or assembly and the ground. The Elastic Support is based on a Foundation Stiffness, […]
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What is fixed support ? What is Displacement ?
Fixed Supports ‘Fixed support’ means fix or constraints all degrees of freedom of the selected entity. Fixed supports are the most widely used support type in FE analysis. As we […]
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Material Properties Required In FEA
Material properties are very important and first assumption to represent any material model in FEA. If you input wrong material details it will greatly affect your results. If you input […]
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Newton Raphson Method / Nonlinear Solution Solving Method
As we discussed in (What is nonlinear Analysis?) the nonlinear solution is not as simple as linear solution, it involves most of FEA related issues such as solution is not […]
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FEA Design Suggestions:
Once product specifications are identified the next task is to design the product. Mainly design is performed based on design formulas, hand calculations, product experience and more complex products trial […]
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What is Nonlinear analysis ? Types of Nonlinearity
The nonlinear is very important term in FEA. Most of engineer gets stuck in this topics as it is not simple as linear simulations. In case of nonlinear simulation you […]
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What is Linear Static Analysis?
It is quite simple and straight forward compare to other analysis types, as name suggest Linear means FE solver uses linear stress vs strain curve and Static means which does […]
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What is Stress Linearization?
The ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard that regulates the design and construction of boilers and pressure vessels. These are […]
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What is Compensating Pressure? What is Compensating Force? What is thrust Pressure?
Pressure vessel consist various components such as nozzle, shell, head, supports, skid & other accessories. Also these vessel have various input, output and intermediate connections as per functionality with other […]
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What is Degrees of Freedom (DOF)?
The term degrees of freedoms is most widely used in various fields like statistics, machine tools, mechanisms, vibration, FEM, etc. Whatever the field, the number of degrees of freedom can […]
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