Recent content by erichp

To answer your question about modeling air (or any fluid region) in Pro/E, you can. I make a new part (usually a rectangular or cylindrical solid) that is large enough to enclose my fluid region. I then insert that part to the relevant assembly, and use the "cutout" component operation to...

In addition to approaching the yield strength, there will be a stiffness non-linearity in compression as the spring approaches its fully-compressed length, when self-contact occurs.

I recently inherited a problem related to temperature measurement. Thermcouples (d- and k- type) are being used in a high-pressure, high-temperature environment, with the measuring junction suspended in an electrically-insulating solid. The leads of conductors A and B extend out of the...