Roughly twenty-five years ago when finite element analysis was becoming mainstream, the career path for a young engineer led to a distinct fork in the road: Are you going to become a designer or an analyst? The designer’s role was to lay out the new and innovative design concepts. The analyst’s job was to make sure they worked. The designer was the idea guy who would create on the back of an envelope. The analyst was the guy who could derive partial differential equations and cleverly simplify complex problems into 2-d analytical models. Continue reading
Is Your FEA Process Verified & Validated?
I have recently written a few articles for R&D Magazine, DesignNews, and Engineering.comabout how best to integrate simulation into a product development process. A critical piece of this integration is verification and validation, sometimes referred to in quality circles as “V&V”. Verification and Validation forms the backbone for any type of quality assurance plan related … Continue reading
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