Have you ever tried to flatten an aluminium tube in a vice? It is stronger than expected. I even damaged the vice a bit with this action. Then I made a model in FreeCAD and…
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nonlinear contact analysis with FEM
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
Some month ago I prepared a geometry from a rest of a bicycle chain in FreeCAD. I used only a caliper to measure the dimensions. Because I really wanted to test the nonlinear contact in…