Finite Element Analysis

Overview

Finite Element Analysis: perhaps the most important developments in mechanical design problems. The idea of FEA is to split a shape into a very large number of standard elements. This can be in the form of traingles, cubes, the tears of small children; or anything that is easily quantifiable and can be arranged to fill a desired shape.

Class Experience

Anyways I took a class that taught anything and everything FEA. We started from the lowest parts and calculated matrixes by hand... But at the end of the class we each wrote our own FEA software in Matlab.

Analysis Types

Our Finit Analysis only covered the mechanical parts. But the exact same code created for this can also be used for a thermal analysis. We also used Ansys to set up some problems for thermal and mechanical studies.

Resources

Have a look at the code on my github FEM If you are strong of will. It is not very well organized and there is a 14% error from expected!!! Here are some nice pictures from other parts of that class.