As an engineer, I must often tailor designs for size, weight, power consumption, and other factors. My employer had been using a general-purpose electromagnetic- simulation package based on FEA ...

This study presents a novel approach for achieving linear motion in thermal micro-actuators by integrating machine learning-assisted optimized mechanical metastructures into the system design.

FEA reveals shoulder fillets under unanticipated stress. "How linear FEA helps in fatigue analysis," Machine Design, Jan. 6, 2005, discusses how to get the right margin of safety out of FEA. Darrell ...