Hello, as I come to end of my degree I feel like I have consumed so much knowledge some earlier more fundamental topics have inevitably been pushed out of my brain! Whilst I have an appreciation and understanding of general engineering concepts, such as mechanics, calculus, matrix algebra etc...
Hello, I have been reading around online and it seems that this should remain (at least fairly) constant throughout the simulation. I am modelling a bi-stable structure that has an analytical rigid part to move the object into its second stable state, by pushing it in a certain direction...
Hello, I came across this article which is discussing the average salary of chartered engineers in the UK (£63,000), there seems to be a debate about the accuracy of this figure but the statement chartered engineer spans a rather wide spectrum. What I found interesting however, is that one of...
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I was unsure where to put it!
Just wondering as a mechanical engineer what the different levels of design engineering are.
I was recently talking to someone at a large construction and chemicals company who expressed themselves as design engineers, in the...
Hi everyone,
I am currently a student but will be graduating this summer. I hope to save up enough money to be able to go travelling in a couple of years. Whilst I would like to travel for a year or so I am also exploring the option of living abroad and potentially living and travelling long...
Hello. I am currently deciding between two job offers. I am a graduate however I will be going into work not on a graduate scheme as I am trying to focus on CAE specifically FEA.
One offer is for an incredibly large company working in a specific area of FEA.
The other is a small consultancy...
Hello everyone, I'm posting this topic because I believe this is a debate that affects a lot of young engineers making key decisions at the moment, including myself.
There's a diverse mix of engineering students university, everything from hating engineering and wanting to get out as fast as...
In a static analysis we are solving: [K]{x}={F}
In a dynamic analysis we are solving: [M]{x''}+[C]{x'}+[K]{x}={F}
Now by introducing a quasi static problem, the initial acceleration at the beginning of each iteration is 0. so we are left with: [C]{x'}+[K]{x}={F}
As I have not specified...
A whipping motion of a thin sheet. There is a wave that moves through the sheet then I am getting errors with individual elements lighting up and then it aborts.
I'm using a quasi static implicit analysis with no damping as its not actually a sheet and it would likely be heavily damped as the...
Hello everyone,
I have been recently getting stuck into FEA for my work, and I am having some real difficulty classifying or categorizing the breakdown of solvers and what fits in where.
I'm hoping that someone can clarify a few things or set me straight.
So for all of our problems our...
