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Re: FEA Modeling
FEA software tends to be rather excitingly expensive. And requires hardware capable of ludicrous speed to analyze anything more complicated than a single part.
To top it off, it's rather easy to misapply it and misinterpret the results if you don't know what you're doing.
On the other hand, plain old hand calculations are cheap, and can probably get you enough accuracy to satisfy. If you don't know how to do it, find a MechE college student or a textbook on strength of materials. Half-priced books or Half.com should provide.
If all that fails, then someone here should probably write up a brief whitepaper on rudimentary strength calculations.
If I must recommend something, though, Ansys DesignSpace would probably work well. It appears that the educational edition, which has limited functionality, would run you $320.
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Last edited by Kevin Sevcik : 23-01-2004 at 12:47.
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