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Engineers' Guide to FEA Basics

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a computer simulation technique used in engineering to analyze how a product withstands forces like vibration, heat, electromagnetic forces. FEA involves breaking a model into small pieces called finite elements and using a mesh to define the elements. The behavior of each element is determined by solving equations for its nodes. The solution for all elements is assembled to give the response of the entire model, allowing engineers to improve product designs by predicting failure points and stresses without building physical prototypes.

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Engineers' Guide to FEA Basics

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a computer simulation technique used in engineering to analyze how a product withstands forces like vibration, heat, electromagnetic forces. FEA involves breaking a model into small pieces called finite elements and using a mesh to define the elements. The behavior of each element is determined by solving equations for its nodes. The solution for all elements is assembled to give the response of the entire model, allowing engineers to improve product designs by predicting failure points and stresses without building physical prototypes.

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Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

What Is FEA?
Computer model
Allows numerical solution of equations
of complicated geometries

divided into many small regions called


"finite elements

Assemblage of all elements' equations


produces a large matrix
Simulation

Use of FEA
Structure
Solid mechanics
Dynamics
Thermal analysis
Electrical analysis
Biomaterials

Analysis of coronary stents

Why The FEA?


Greater flexibility to model
complex geometries than
Used in solving structural,
mechanical, heat transfer,
fluid dynamics, etc.
Much cheaper than if each
sample was actually built
and tested

How Does It Work?


Uses system of points
called nodes which
make a grid called a
mesh
Mesh is programmed
to contain the
material and
structural properties.
Defines how the
structure will react to
certain loading
conditions

Preprocessing
Construct a FE model of the structure to be analyzed
Can be in either 1D, 2D or 3D form
Primary objective is to replicate important parameters
& features of the real model

utilize pre-existing digital blueprints, design files, CAD


models

Preprocessing Link

Once created, a meshing procedure is used to define


and break the model up into small elements

A Quarter of
Object

Mesh of the
3D Solid

Analysis
Series of computational procedures involving applied
forces, and the properties of the elements which
produce a model solution
Effects such as:

Deformations, strains, and stresses


Caused by applied structural loading conditions

Use a simple function


to approximate the
displacements in each
element

Formulate a set of
linear equations with
displacements at each
node as unknowns

Solve linear equations

Variables Within The System


Mass, volume, temperature
Strain energy, stress strain
Force, displacement, velocity, acceleration
Synthetic (User defined)

Input
Boundary Conditions
(prescribed force,
prescribed
displacement, etc.)

Output
Stresses, Strains,
Displacements, at each
material point (X1, X2,
X3)

Postprocessing

New Developments in FEA


Integrating FEA into CAD
design software
Self-adaptive analysis
Analysis of problem of
huge size
Multi-scale analysis
Multi-physics analysis

hip endoprosthesis

http://www.endolab.de/computer/computersimulation_e.htm

Case Study
Incorrect
acetabular cup

2mm larger than


reamed hip

Correct

Significant
decrease in stress

http://web.missouri.edu/~smithdoug/complab/resproj/cb_fea_hipcup.html

Helpful Examples
http://www.sv.vt.edu/classes/MSE2094
_NoteBook/97ClassProj/frames.html

Look under 3. Numerical Approach


Example in Theory Link

http://www.colorado.edu/MCEN/MCEN4
173/chap_01.pdf
http://www.endolab.de/computer/comp
utersimulation_e.htm

Nodes
Corner

Points at which
elements are jointed
Nodes are the
locations where values
are to be
approximated
Can be either at the
corner or middle of
element

Middle

Nodes
Certain density

throughout material
Bounded by sets of
nodes, and define
localized mass and
stiffness properties of
the model
Analysis of a ceramic ball for hip replacement

Loading Conditions
Point, pressure, thermal, gravity, and
centrifugal static loads
Thermal loads from solution of heat transfer
analysis
Enforced displacements
Heat flux and convection
Point, pressure and gravity dynamic loads

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