pl15 Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 I have started to develop a structural analysis tool (linear elastic response) using an alternative method to FEA, and I am wondering if the tool would be useful. Since I am not a structural engineer, I wanted to get thoughts on this to see if this kind of tool could be helpful for the design process? For example, at a very early stage of a design, drawings could be done in a few seconds. Here is the tool I am working on: fsa.plvaldenaire.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piknockyou Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Wooow, that's freaking great. How does it work? Can I download the application? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl15 Posted April 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Thanks! It is based on this method: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045782597002181 It involves the same equations as the ones used by Finite Element Method (here mechanical equilibrium with linear elasticity). The difference is from the numerical integration. Here, it uses Finite Difference rather than Finite Element/Volume so the fields (stress and strain tensors) are discretised on a regular grid. At high resolution it should give the same exact solution as FEM. It is a Web App so you cannot download it and I am planning to keep it online. The page should also work from a phone or tablet. If you have any feedback please don't hesitate to share; I want to improve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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