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Sanity check for FEA rates
I know the topic of rates comes up fairly often, but I feel I need a sanity check. I’m in the planning stages in starting up a one person engineering business in Seattle. Services will include FEA, structural dynamics, heat exchanger and thermal analysis, and custom numerical modeling...- nmuoio
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- Replies: 8
- Forum: Engineer Business Practices and Issues
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Mode Shape interpretation
Hello, The results of a modal frequency analysis typically include a mode shape with each modal frequency. Most FEA packages can plot out displacements values of the mode shape. In a frequency analysis, there is no input load. So my question is: What do these displacement values mean? and...- nmuoio
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- Forum: Finite Element Analysis (FEA) engineering
