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Cloud computing serves as a powerful enabler for performing complex and critical mechanical design analyses, particularly those related to fatigue, multi-axial stress states, and detailed stress concentration assessments (including FEA for intricate geometries) in components like pressure cylinders and plates with discontinuities. It allows engineers to tackle computationally intensive simulations and ensure structural integrity.
Ever wondered how machines move or structures stand strong? It's all about Fundamentals of Mechanical Design and Analysis—the core of innovation.
Mechanical design is understanding how forces, materials, and geometry interact. We start with basic concepts like force, mass, pressure, and their relationships to moments, work, and power. We also use mathematical tools to model how loads and materials affect a design.
Stress and Strain Analysis reveals how loads affect components. We examine Loads, Shear, Moment, Slope, and Deflection to understand beam responses and ensure strength and minimal deformation. We also explore Simple Stresses, Strains, and Deformations under tension, compression, shear, and torsion, identifying the shear center.
For Combined Stresses, Mohr's Circle helps analyze stress states. We also design Pressure Vessels and Fits for specific conditions. Special Loading Conditions include curved beams, thermal effects, column buckling, and Stress Concentration Factors around discontinuities.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a crucial computational tool. We learn FEA fundamentals, how to build geometric models, apply methods for various elements, and understand the general FE procedure to optimize designs and predict issues before building prototypes.
