Why write a book on Femap?
Learning Femap was written not only for professionals in the mechanical and aerospace engineering industries, but especially for the up-and-comers just breaking into FEA. That includes the students and early-career engineers who seek an understanding of Femap, but who might not necessarily have school or workplace assistance available to them. Back in 2010, there was little third-party training material. Youtube walk-throughs barely existed, AI was on nobody’s mind, and no amount of eng-tips.com thread searching could get an independent user over the learning curve of a modern FEA tool.
I personally found myself frustrated during research on a composite airfoil application in graduate school at Virginia Tech around 2010. After I landed in the aerospace industry in 2011, I found myself in an enabling role at Structural Design and Analysis which put my own learning of the Femap feature set on the fast-track while supporting various aircraft development programs like the Vanilla VA-001 and the Aurora Orion UAV. After just a few years, I decided to assemble a guide based on this experience.
I hope this book can help you. When paired with other references on general finite element analysis or stress analysis, you have all you need for success in the aerospace structures industry.
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