I am designing a small powdered metal part for the automotive market and I am not sure what failure criteria I should use for the FEA. The part will see a significant bolt up load but very little dynamic load. Elongation at fracture of this material is about 4%. Should I consider it a failure...
I have a belt-pulley problem that I could use some help with. The purpose of the FEA is to determine operating stresses in a new pulley design. The pulley will use a multi-V belt but I am only concerned with stresses close to the center of the pulley so the belt grooves do not need to be...
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I want to make some design changes to a bracket attached to an IC engine and I want to make sure I end up with a part as robust as the one it is replacing. Tooling is expensive so I would like to validate the bracket using FEA techniques before actually ordering parts. I have...
