Can Finite Element Analysis Programs Analyze Inflatable Vacuum Chambers?

[ice109]

This summer i have an internship that expects me to write a program to analyze this inflatable vacuum chamber. The advisor wants to be able to put in a geometry and see if it will be stable. Would finite element analysis programs be able to do this? If so which one should I look into getting?

 

[jaap de vries]

I have never heard of an inflatable vacuum chamber

 

[ice109]

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610222

 

[jaap de vries]

Well I guess it is going to be a function of the inner surface outer surface and the pressure of the surrounding cell. I am not sure about the FEM.

What would be the purpose for this devise?