I haven't been through any of the suggested books yet, so thanks for the suggestions.
My eventual goal is to be able to use CAD/FEA to design or evaluate the design of welded, bent tubular steel structures. An example would be a frame for a go-cart or a roll-cage for a offroad vehicle.
I have a...
Hi All,
In the spirit of continuing education I'm going to teach myself some basic structural analysis. I want to (re)learn the basics and the theory behind FEA rather than just modelling in CAD and applying loads and seeing what the results are.
I use SolidWorks at my job, and have made some...
