Tag: FEA

FEA and Credibility

FEA and the Question of Credibility

FEA is a digital way to test designs against predictable forces, to determine whether a design will fail and, if so, when and how the ...

Fitness for Service Assessments

Once commissioned tanks, pipes and pressure vessels begin to corrode. Periodic inspections identify degraded regions. Engineers then assess the reduced safety margins and determine if ...

Finite Element Analysis Convergence and Mesh Independence

It's a battle as old as Finite Element Analysis. How do you achieve accurate results while balancing size and solve time of a FEA model? ...
Finite Element Analysis Rectangular Beam Deflection (in)

Finite Element Analysis Verification

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a powerful tool for evaluating complex structural problems. Like all analytical software, bad results stem from bad input. We call ...
Ruptured Containment Following Structural Failure Test

Wayback Wednesday: Sandia Containment Testing and FEA

The amount of time and effort that goes into making sure that nuclear plants safe is incredible. In the early 80s, Sandia National Labs (SNL) ...
FEA Plot Showing Stress on Pelican Case

5 Reasons To Use FEA Over Drop Testing

FEA Drop Tests Today, more and more manufacturers are switching to analytical drop tests before anything goes into production. This helps save time and money, ...
Shipping Container Damage

Shipping Container Impact Analysis

We can perform impact analyses in lieu of drop tests to verify structural integrity. This is an example of a dropped shipping container. ...

Crash Test Tuesday: Geo Vs. Chevy C2500

We thought it’d be fun to showcase some of our tools using a new series we call Crash Test Tuesday. This week, we’re going to ...
FEA Pipe Impact

Failure Analysis

Failures Happen, Learn from Them If you’ve made it here, something probably went wrong. And you don’t want it to happen again. Failure is sometimes ...

Missile Barrier Explicit FEA Results

Tornado Missile Barriers

A nuclear plant found that they needed to protect pipes from wind driven missiles. We designed a barrier system for them using 3D modeling and ...