VisualFEA and General User Manual

by Robert Davis Cook

* The usage of the software is so easy and user-friendly that it can be mastered just by reviewing the screen demos that are included.
* The preprocessing capabilities include powerful mesh generation schemes such as automatic triangulation/tetrahedronization in plane, curved surface and 3-D volume
* Structural, heat conduction and seepage analysis
* Various analysis options including linear static, nonlinear, dynamic, adaptive, and sequentially staged analysis.
* Powerful post processing with various 3-D data visualization and processing tools including contouring, iso-surface rendering, cutting plane settings, and so on.
* Frame analysis can be processed in real time so that the structural behaviors can be studied interactively with moving loads, changing geometries or boundary conditions
* Computer-based training tools simulating finite element analysis procedures: shape functions, element stiffness computation, equation assembly, equation solvers, eigen value analysis, adaptive analysis process, stress recovery and smoothing
* Cross platform software with Windows and Mac OS versions. The data can be exchanged between the two versions

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First published November 15, 2001