Underground pipelines constitute a critical component of energy and water distribution infrastructure worldwide. Finite element analysis (FEA) offers a versatile computational framework for predicting ...

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are often utilized to express space- and time-dependent problems in physics, however, when applied in geometry and for the solving of other related problems, ...

Professor of Mechanics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. It's easy to construct finite-element models with errors. And it's just as easy to correct them, when you know how. The first step in a ...

Models such as this housing can be divided along an axis of symmetry to reduce model size and run times. Each node supports translation along and rotation about an X, Y, and Z axis for a total of six ...