Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a method of analysing how a part or assembly will perform over its lifetime. FEA enables you to predict potential design issues and therefore minimise risk to your product, profits, and your business.
With FEA you can test the impact of varying conditions (stress, vibration, buckling, fatigue, creep, heat, etc) on your design. It is a powerful simulation tool used alongside the likes of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and motion analysis.
By including FEA as part of your product development process, you can simulate the effects that real world extremes will have on your design before you’ve created a physical prototype. This virtual prototyping saves you substantial time and cost by minimising the number of physical prototypes required.
These days FEA is being used in virtually every engineering discipline: aerospace, automotive, biomedical, chemicals, electronics, energy, geotechnical, manufacturing, and plastics industries all routinely apply Finite Element Analysis.
Some common FEA packages include Cosmos, SolidWorks Simulation, Femap, Nastran, Ansys, and Abaqus.
Here are some examples of the type of FEA projects we’ve worked on:
