The ability to recover strains from a flat panel to be bent into a non-developable surface is very useful. If you know the yield strain of the...
I agree, and this point was made in my earlier post (#11) above. Let me try to clarify just because a program is NAFEMS approved, and is...
Here is a better link: http://www.nafems.org/
Well I sure didn't mean to start a controversy, and the last thing I expected was to be accused of name calling, certainly that was not the...
This does not seem quite so simple as you make it out to be, your response seems flippant and typical of software vendors that trivialize tough...
Great points, I agree totally. There is a tendency to believe that very complex problems can be solved quite easily by just buying some FEA code...
I'd be wary of "free" or low cost FEA programs. Much of the value of modern FEA codes is in it's longevity, with many years of testing and...
