Watch out — You can get different results depending on how you mesh the model. Second-order shell elements: Meshing the thin band with secondorder-shell elements produces precise curvilinear geometry.

You need not know everything about FEA to successfully run today's analysis software. Over the past 30 years, finite-element analysis has gone from a technology used mostly by experts and academics to ...

This Design News interview with Marco Biancolini, founder of RBF Morph, offers insight into the advantages of using mesh morphing. Design News: What is mesh-morphing; what kind of advanced features or ...