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[–] 15 points 4 days ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    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)

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