The company I work for was recently purchased by a larger company and as part of the takeover we are moving to using Solidworks instead of Inventor and we are also moving to using Solidworks PDM for all document management.
The company I work for is effectively an oil and gas / renewables...
I have a connection design which is effectively a beam with welded end plate connecting to a column column by a 4 bolt group which is set within the beam flanges.
I have two questions relating to prying in this connection.
1 - Do I have to consider prying of the end plate?
2 - If I add full...
I'm looking for any guidance or papers on how fatigue lives can be extended for carbon steel through the machining of the surface to remove surface defects as they develop.
I have found a comment in Fatigue of Metallic materials by Mirk Klesnil and Peter Lukas that refers to work done with...
Looking for some advice on stress linearisation, specifically how to deal with shear dominated stress paths.
A consulting company has performed analysis on a threaded pipe connector subject to bending, tension and compression. They have calculated the capacity of the connector based on ISO...
