Thermal Expansion

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Micro-robots and airplanes with FEAMechanical Engineering:
Micro-robots and airplanes with FEA

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
A self-propelled, remote-controlled micro-robot revolutionizes heart surgery via more effective 'peep hole operations' - and the same technology also leads...

Instrumentation Modeling for NASA’s Next Mars Rover MissionAerospace Industry:
Instrumentation Modeling for NASA’s Next Mars Rover Mission

Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
Scheduled to launch in the fall of 2009 with the goal of reaching Mars in October 2010, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic rover that will...

Model Examples

Structural Analysis Presentation, General Introduction, V 4.3: This presentation gives an overview of the Structural... Microresistor Beam: This example illustrates the ability to couple thermal, electrical, and structural analysis in one...
Thermal Stresses in a Layered Plate: The thermal stress in a layered plate is studied in this example. A plate... Viscoplastic Creep in Solder Joints: This example studies viscoplastic creep in solder joints under thermal loading...
Surface Resistor: Thermo-Mechanical Analysis: The drive for miniaturizing electronic devices has resulted in today’s... Thermally Induced Creep: Creep is an inelastic time-dependent deformation which occurs when a material is subjected to...
Heating Circuit: Small-sized heating circuits are used in many applications. For example, in different manufacturing... Stress-Optical Effects - with Generalized Plane Strain and in a Photonic Waveguide: Planar photonic waveguides in silica...
Thermal Stress Analysis of a Turbine Stator Blade: The conditions within gas turbines are extreme. The pressure can be... Diesel Engine Piston: The combustion process at steady-state produces cyclic pressure loads and high constant...
Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate: A fuel cell stack operates at temperatures just below 100 °C, which means that it has to be... Heat Generation in a Vibrating Structure: When a structure is subjected to high frequency vibrations, a significant...
Thermal Drift in a Microwave Filter Cavity: Microwave filters are used to eliminate unwanted frequency components in the... Wrapped Thick Cylinder under Pressure and Thermal Loading: This model is compared to a NAFEMS benchmark for composite...
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