What is Finite Element Analysis?
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Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a process in which you solve equations.  These equations can relate to stress, as mentioned above, but also heat, diffusion, chemical reaction, or anything you want.\n\nFEA is a system of solving these equations in which a large object is broken into many elements.  Then equations are solved for each element and stitched together to give the final answer.  The method is now pretty standard and optimized to give fast reliable results in many cases.
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See the entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method#Comparison_to_the_finite_difference_method .
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You might wanna take a look at this:\n\nhttp://www.download.com/Best-Free-Software/1200-20-5154518.html?tag=fea_more
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If you are interested in fundamental theory and derivations of various formulae try Timoshenko's book. If you are looking for solved problems in SOM and a more exam oriented book you may want to try Schaum's outline of Strength of Materials.
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need to know the type of metal, then find the shear force & plug it into your equation.  don't forget to factor in each thread  (Basic solid mechanics)
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Basin Analysis is the systematic study of the processes that lead to the development of basins. Its principles are derived from the Theory of Plate Tectonics and its applications range from oil and mineral exploration to understanding the behavior of earthquakes. Many past geologic events are understood from Basin Analysis because that is where sediments from erosion are preserved.
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It sounds like a Civil Engineering problem, maybe for steel structures? Well, regardless, I suggest going to the ASCE (Am. Society of Civil Engineers) web site. They should have some good examples including some mesh - free finite element method solutions. Should give strengths, buckling info, etc.
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see:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EngineerIng
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In aerospace, it's someone who performs a structural or thermal analysis on a potential design.  This is different from a design engineer, who will design the hardware, circuit, etc in the first place.  Analyst doesn't do the design, just verifies that it will work.
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The standard FDM is analogous to the FEM if linear approximations are used in the FEM for Dirichlet problems \nThe FEM satisfies the Neumann boundary conditions via an integral form exactly. This is not true of FDM. \nMath errors are more rigorously handled in the FEM.
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Not at all, in fact system analysis & designs is about the design of a software product - a system, by the point of view of the user.\n\nThe system analisis, specially is about gathering, as accurate as posible, the requirements of final users, and document those requirements, in order to give enougth information for the developers.\n  \nThis is the core of the system business, i can tell you that in this phase resides the success of a software project, because you have to be capable of listen and understand how the user want it to function, how the user want to see the data, the volume of the data, the periodicity, many details.\n\nThe desing is the phase, after you have gathered all of the information about the users needs, you have to design the database structures, screens, reports, etc.\n\nSoftware Engineering, also includes the phase of develop, test, and mainteinance of software. There are diferent ways, and phases, depending on the size of the project, and the type of it.
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1. um, everywhere? From a cash machine, to calculating how much chemicals to put to produce laundry detergent, to construction of buildings and bridges.\n2. The ever-increasing advances in computer technology has enabled many in science and engineering to apply numerical methods to simulate physical phenomena. Numerical methods are often divided into elementary ones such as finding the root of an equation, integrating a function or solving a linear system of equations to intensive ones like the finite element method. Intensive methods are often needed for the solution of practical problems and they often require the systematic application of a range of elementary methods, often thousands or millions of times over. In the development of numerical methods, simplifications need to be made to progress towards a solution: for example general functions may need to be approximated by polynomials and computers cannot generally represent numbers exactly anyway. As a result, numerical methods do not usually give the exact answer to a given problem, or they can only tend towards a solution getting closer and closer with each iteration. Numerical methods are generally only useful when they are implemented on computer using a computer programming language . \n\n3. Visit these sites:\nhttp://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/n2003/FixedPointMod.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_interpolation\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/NewtonsMethod.html\n\nHope that helps!!
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Seems more like a vector analysis question to me.
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An engineer specializes in applying theoretical and abstract concepts to solving practical, real-world projects in real-time.\n\nEngineers have strong mathematical ability and numeracy. They highly quantify all problems as they resolve them. The language of engineering is math and the sentences are equations.\n\nFinancial engineers analyze and resolve finance-related problems using math analysis and modelling. Common tools are partial differential equations (to analyze time changing variables as in marketing and stock-trading) , probability and stochastic (to deal with the 'chance' factor with precision in risk management) and computer software such as Mat Lab to create reusable and fast computational algorithms.
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Strength of materials\n\n\nIt has been suggested that Tensile strength be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)\nStrength of materials is the scientific area of materials science for the study of the strength of engineering materials and their mechanical behavior in general (such as stress, deformation, strain and stress-strain relations). Strength is considered in terms of compressive strength, tensile strength, and shear strength, namely the limit states of compressive stress, tensile stress and shear stress
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Differential equations.\nLinear algebra.\nNumerical analysis.
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Vector calculus is a field of mathematics concerned with multivariate real analysis of vectors in two or more dimensions. It consists of a suite of formulas and problem solving techniques very useful for engineering and physics.\n\nWe consider vector fields, which associate a vector to every point in space, and scalar fields, which associate a scalar to every point in space. For example, the temperature of a swimming pool is a scalar field: to each point we associate a scalar value of temperature. The water flow in the same pool is a vector field: to each point we associate a velocity vector.