2014/5/15 Application of FEM in Engineering .MechanicalAerospace/Civil engineering/Automoble Available commercial FEM software packages engineering Thermal/Fluid flow NASTRAN (General purpose FEA) ectromagnetics PATRAN (Pre/Post processor) Process analysis (Injection molding.Forging.Casting.etc.) Hyper/Mesh (Pre/Post processor) Dyn-D (Impc/Crash analysis) 5 2014/5/15 5 Application of FEM in Engineering • Mechanical/Aerospace/Civil engineering/Automobile engineering • Structure analysis (static/dynamic, linear/nonlinear) • Thermal/Fluid flow • Electromagnetics • Process analysis (Injection molding, Forging, Casting, etc.) • … Available commercial FEM software packages • ANSYS (General purpose FEA) • ABAQUS (Nonlinear and dynamic analysis) • NASTRAN (General purpose FEA) • PATRAN (Pre/Post processor) • Hyper/Mesh (Pre/Post processor) • Dyna-3D (Impact/Crash analysis) • … Automotive System Analysis(combination of different element types)