Thanks for your replies but I feel that most of you are going off on tangents.
I know the limitations of mechanica & know that there is better software out there. I havn't looked at Roarks for a number of years now, am I correct in assuming that it will only really contains simple closed form...
Does anyone know of a website where I can details of real life objects being stressed?
I would like to remodel them in ProE and compare the results from Mechanica, just to build up some confidence.