Strange one here. I have some cylindrical castings that have bosses (radially) in them that will be tapped. There is a double start thread along the long axis of the part. My question is: Can I relate the thread start to the bosses? Stated another way, can you control the spindle angle to...
I've been using CosmosWorks for a little bit now and am getting cautiously familiar with it. I need to do some dynamic response problems which CosmosWorks will not do. We have the GeoStar add-on by CosmosM that should handle (via ASTAR) the dynamic response due to random vibration. I'm one...
Because I don't trust myself using FEA entirley yet, I try to do a few simple examples that I can hand calculate to compare results. I'm getting a problem with thermal expansion of a part.
I'm a newbie to CW and having trouble with a few things. If I go into the material properties of 6061...
Our company just got CosmosWorks Advanced Professional with Geostar and I have very little FEA experience. I am attending a training course next week on this, so I have been playing around with it a bit. And have a question.
I am looking at designing an extruded vertical-finned heat sink to...
I'm an ME that has very limited experience in vibration analysis. I was recently handed a project to evaluate the effectiveness of a vibration damping mount.
We had two tests done to the UUT per MIL-STD-810F(Fig 514.5C-1). The first test had the UUT mounted directly to the shaker table...
