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Free Body Diagram: Why is it useful in FEA?

January 31, 2017 by Cyprien 15 Comments

Free Body Diagram: Why is it useful in FEA?

If you are tackling static* problems with FEA, there is a basic tool that will help you a lot: The Free Body Diagram (FBD). If you are trying to analyze static mechanisms, you probably heard this name before… But do you know what it is and how it actually works? That’s what this article is […]

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