When surgeons remove an aggressive bone tumor from the pelvis, saving a patient's life can mean sacrificing a large portion of the spine and hip. Putting that fragile structure back together in a way ...
Solid modeling is great for visualizing ideas but it's often misapplied in finite-element analysis. One of the latest methods of slashing development time is to use the 3D models that CAD users create ...
Professor of Mechanics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. It's easy to construct finite-element models with errors. And it's just as easy to correct them, when you know how. The first step in a ...