In the previous FE Update (Sept. 12), Design Generator President Paul Kurowski, remarked that the four most common types of analyses are linear static, modal, linear buckling, and steady-state thermal ...

Let me expound and shed some additional light on the small giant with the big technical stick. John was truly brilliant and gifted. Solid Mechanics, FEA, computer science, modal analysis, computers, ...

FEA can be a useful tool for sizing up resonance problems. Mention FEA and the first things that comes to an engineer's mind are stress and deflection. But FEA can do more than that. It can also show ...

This paper documents a joint development process between General Motors and Dow Automotive to improve primary body structure frequencies on the GM family of midsize vans by utilizing cavity-filling ...