Ok so how do you know what the cross sectional area of the elements are? Or is it a case of they are always identical, say 0.1mm^2 just specified by the program being used?
Hi, Ive just started reading a book on FE and it has a description of how FE theoretically works. It says that it creates truss members and approximates them as being springs and works out deflection according to Hookes law. My question is that it when the spring constant is represented as...
