Sheffield Forgemasters was declined a government loan of £80 million to build nuclear reactors parts. This would have created a couple of hundred jobs plus many more in the supply chain. The reasons given by the UK government are lack of funds. If ever there was a case to give UK manufacturing a...
When you import geometry such as iges files into CosmosWorks you cannot de-feature. Can anyone suggest a meshing tool to de-feature the imported geometry at the meshing stage?
Do FEA software packages such a CosmosWorks use industry standard solvers like Nastran? Could you use the CosmosWorks solver with FEMAP? How do you identify the solvers?
Should a sole trader working from home bother with Professional Indemnity Insurance? I understand you need to keep up with the insurance payment for about 15 years after you cease trading. At a cost of about £3000 per year for premiums this seems expensive. I only have assets worth about £40,000...
Hello,
I'm currently running into memory issues with my present hardware and FEA software which is IDEAS. I am only allowed 2GB of memory because it runs on a 32 bit operating system (Windows XP). What I need is about 8 GB of RAM so that I can build very large models.
Most of the geometry...
A leading UK politician recently stated in a national newspaper that industry and academia needed to encourage more women into the engineering profession to address the skills shortage.
If indeed there were a skills shortage for engineering posts in the UK then encouraging women into the...
I'm aware that standards exist for estimating the allowable stress on welds for say 10 million cycles. These standards often take the stress at a distance away from the parent material and this may be about half of the steel wall thickness.
I think the main problem is that most of the weld data...
I know an engineering manager who was made redundant at the age of 50. He tried for six months to find a similar position but was eventually forced into driving taxis to support his family. He has now started up his own taxi firm and is doing OK.
I don’t think this is an isolated case. I am in...
Does anyone know how to work out the allowable stress on a fillet weld under cyclic loading?
The stress is derived from an FEA model and the loading is more complex than pure shear or tension.
How can a consultant protect himself from being sued for engineering design work if it goes wrong. PII insurance may not cover everything so what else can be done as a preventative measure apart from the obvious of not making any mistakes.
Is quality of life in the west better or worse as a result of globalisation? Without a doubt the cost of consumer products such as cars, washing machines and TV’s is continually being driven down.
On the other hand the cost of living is going up. When my parents left school there was an...
In the UK, tradesmen such as plumbers, plasterers, bricklayers, joiners and electricians earn far more than fully qualified and experienced engineers.
Generally you can become a tradesman in a couple of years on the job training and perhaps a short college course. Compare this with a minimum of...
I've been struggling with this question ever since I started using FEA over 4 years ago.
I appreciate that in some cases it might be worth spending £40,000 on an FEA package for specialist types of analysis such as the forging process or crash simulation etc.
But why spend this amount of...
Has anyone investigated the difference between a single 64-bit processor and dual 32 bit processors of approximately the same price for running FEA simulations?
I'm well aware that many small engineering businesses run into difficulty either because of late or non-payment. As a consumer if I received goods or services and refused to pay for them or decided I will pay when I feel like it I would expect a debt collection agency to come knocking on my...
