FEA at Work: Applying Loads to Solids

There are many ways to apply loads to solids in finite element analysis and it’s hard to pick the right technique. This video shows various ways to apply loads and how to design an FEA model. Let’s go deep on this and practice problem-solving with FEA! MSC Nastran documentation: https://hxgn.biz/3VxRJXf https://hxgn.biz/4aWJB6N https://hxgn.biz/3Xj4O7M https://hxgn.biz/3Vfq0sY https://hxgn.biz/3xcWBHG https://hxgn.biz/3wVN33X https://hxgn.biz/3X82j8x Steff Evans’s post on LinkedIn: https://hxgn.biz/3VwCg9y and his courses: https://hxgn.biz/4aTDVui Tony Abbey on St. Venant’s principle: https://hxgn.biz/4aLjq32 Practical FEA by Dominique Madier: https://hxgn.biz/4bQQPLc Free Student Editions: https://hxgn.biz/48L37Cn (teachers can use this link, too) Free trial of MSC Apex: https://hxgn.biz/3Va0MxD (non-academic) Hexagon Design and Engineering Academics: https://hxgn.biz/3VaqyBP Help for Student Edition: support.studentedition.mi@hexagon.com Help for anything else academic: university.help.mi@hexagon.com Alex Szatmary on LinkedIn: https://hxgn.biz/436nV6a Disclaimer: Some delays were edited out, such as loading times and time for the solver to run. 0:00 Introduction 1:30 Tension 2:06 Simulate one block 9:15 Nastran documentation 10:25 RBE2 and RBE3 12:18 Make test models 13:01 Create 5 blocks 18:11 Results 19:10 RBE trick 20:20 Results 21:48 Torsion 23:06 How RBE3s apply moments 23:50 Torsion results 25:52 Bending 29:01 Conclusion