Structural mechanics

The structural mechanics is the analysis of displacements, forces and internal stresses in solids, either new for the planning or the recalculation of existing mechanical structures. It deals with the stress analysis of components, materials, moldings, group of components, etc., which are made of solid materials such as steel, aluminum, anything else metal, plastic, rubber, composites, concrete, wood, glass or other.

The structural mechanics is a discipline of art can be created in the mechanical solid modeling, are their divided to be investigated solid-state components in finite substructures and attacking from the outside mechanical or thermal loads ( using the free-cutting principle in the case of vector and directed sizes) applied. As a rule, correspond to the contours of the individual elements of the finite substructures elementary geometric shapes. The boundary surfaces of the individual elements of the finite substructures may then be used to vertically or tangentially to calculate more accurately sizes and conditions in an angle to these boundaries in the interior of the solid-state components, and hence to gain information about conditions inside the component. The structural mechanics is an interdisciplinary engineering science field, which ( and in particular in the automotive industry, but also in many other branch disciplines ), construction ( and in particular in the steel construction), in aviation and aerospace and defense technology has applications in mechanical engineering.

It deals with the calculation, dimensioning and design of components and structures under static and dynamic mechanical as well as thermal stress. It will include: stress and deformation analysis, fracture mechanics, failure mechanisms, vibrational properties, contact and friction problems, etc.

A now often used means and tool for computations in structural mechanics is the finite element method. The so creatable finite element solid models can be further processed beyond the purely numerically resulting statement content, but also with coloring data visualization algorithms for three-dimensional color models. The latter applies if the software is specially programmed and implemented for modeling. A number of finite element software packages contain the feature finished the coloring visualization already included in the package scope.

Opposites, but also complement the Structural mechanics Fluid Mechanics (Fluid Mechanics), acoustics, thermodynamics, piezoelectricity, electro-magnetism, temperature fields, etc.

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