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有限元应用参考译文 Finite Element Analysis Finite Element Analysis (FEA), also known as the Finite Element Method (FEM), is probably the most important tool added to the mechanical design engineers toolkit this century. The development of FEA has been driven by the desire for more accurate design computations in more complex situations, allowing improvements in both the design procedure and products. The growing use of FEA has been made possible by the creation of computation engines that are capable of handling the immense volume of calculations necessary to prepare and carry out an analysis and easily display the results for interpretation. With the advent of very powerful desktop workstations, FEA is now available at a practical cost to virtually all engineers and designers. 有限元分析(FEA)，也称为有限元法(FEM)，可能是本世纪提供给机械设计工程师使用的最重要的设计工具之一。有限元分析技术的发展由对复杂环境的要求更精确的设计计算所推动，能大大改善设计过程及产品设计的质量。快速增长的有限元应用有赖于能为前置处理及结果的后处理过程提供大容量计算的有限元软件的发展。功能强大的桌面工作站的出现，使几乎所有工程师与设计师应用有限元分析技术能以较低的成本得以实现。 The Pro/MECHANICA software described in this introductory tutorial is only one of many commercial systems that are available. All of these systems share many common capabilities. In this tutorial, we will try to present both the commands for using MECHANICA and the reasons behind those commands, so that the general procedures can be transferred to other FEA packages. Notwithstanding this desire, it should be realized that Pro/M is unique in many ways among packages currently available. Therefore, numerous topics treated will be specific to Pro/M. 这里说介绍的Pro/MECHANICA仅是目前众多商业有限元软件中的一种。这些软件具有一些共同的功能，在此，我们将不仅介绍使用Pro/MECHANICA的命令，而且还会介绍使用这些命令背后的原因。因此，应用Pro/MECHANICA的一般过程将同样适用于其它软件。尽管有这个愿望，我们必须认识到Pro/MECHANICA的一些方面在众多软件中还是比较独特，因此，一些处理方法仅适用于Pro/MECHANICA。 Pro/MECHANICA (or Pro/M as we will call it) is actually a suite of three programs: Structure, Thermal, and Motion. The first of these, Structure, is able to perform the following: linear static stress analysis modal analysis (mode shapes and natural frequencies) bu