You don’t really need to do finite element analysis on a truss though. It’s solvable with some simple equations usually. It’s been a long time for me though so maybe I’m wrong
For a plank, it is. For anything else, where you are using more complex shapes and more than one material, no finite firm is known, so FEM all the way (or some other simulation technique)
You don’t really need to do finite element analysis on a truss though. It’s solvable with some simple equations usually. It’s been a long time for me though so maybe I’m wrong
For a plank, it is. For anything else, where you are using more complex shapes and more than one material, no finite firm is known, so FEM all the way (or some other simulation technique)