So you have learned about column buckling under a point load applied at the end of the column, do you know if columns can buckle under their self-weight? Let’s explore it and run some analyses using midas Civil.
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In the FEM, the most critical question is “how many meshes do we need to get the correct (or reasonable) results?”
Continuing on to the third part of this multi-part blog, another option is a quadrilateral element. As always, let’s start with an example.
For the previous example, we can use high-order triangular elements. This element has six nodes per element and assumes the displacement is ...
The scary part of FEM is sometimes FEM gives wrong results without any error message. The analysis may be meaningless if an engineer cannot ...
