Surface Extraction

Simplify CAD Fillet radii

Cutouts
Geometry
Splines
Part Assemblies
Isotropic
Orthotropic
Material Properties Anisotropic
Composite Laminates
Embedded Rebar/Fibers
Concentrated
Distributed
Problem
Loads Contact
Initial Strains
Thermal
Fixed
Displacement
Specified
Boundary Conditions Free
Mixed
Rigid Body

Model Constraints Multi-point

Dr. Lonny Thompson Interfaces
Unstructured
Mapped
Mesh Adaptive Mesh (h, p, or hp)
Node coordinates
Data
Element-node connectivity
Bar, Truss
1D Line Bernoulli-Euler
Requirements Beam
Discretization Timoshenko
Linear Static Objectives
Analysis Type Triangle
Buckling
Quadrilateral
Assumptions
Polygonal
2D Surface
Limitations
Document Plane Stress/Strain
Mitigation strategies
Elements Axisymmetric
Recommendations Applications
Plate
Design of Experiments
Shell
Sensitivity Analysis
Tetrahedron
Geometry Optimization
3D Solid Hexahedron
Topology
Polyhedron
Materials Static Linear FEA for Infinite
Deformed Geometry Elastic Solids and Special
Structures Composite
Stress Contours Visualization
Linear or Quadratic
Strain Energy Contours
Shape functions Lagrange or Hermite
Stress Concentrations
Hierarchical
Part Stiffness Interpret Results
Symmetric
Failure Criteria Element Gauss Quadrature
High (Increase density) FEM Numerical integration
Stress gradients Stiffness Matrix Lobotto Quadrature
Low (decrease density) Mesh Convergence Sparse
Grid independence Remesh Assemble global
Error Estimation Banded
Error Estimates
Discrete Equilibrium Equations
Orders of Magnitude Post-Process
Apply boundary conditions
Simple Models
Enforce constraints
Prototypes
Gaussian Elimination
Experiments Direct solvers
Validation LU decomposition
Energy Bounds
Conjugate Gradient
Reaction Forces
Generalized Minimal Residual
Element distortion limits (GMRES)
Check Iterative Solvers
Coincident nodes Block Jacobi diagonal
Nodal Displacements
Element connectivity gaps Incomplete Cholesky
Pre-conditioners
Experiments Verification LU Factorization
Solving
Algebraic Multigrid
QR
Direct
Lanczos
Eigenvalue Solvers
Power
Iterative
Subspace Iteration
Yield
Recovery (strains, stresses, Strength
Failure Limits
reaction forces)
Energy and Work
Stability Limits
Buckling
Critical Limits