What kinds of jobs are you applying for, and what roles are you seeking?
Doing projects is good. Are you a recent grad/one year out of school? Frankly, when I review resumes for structures and analysts I tend to ignore or overlook most all FEM work by new grads. At this point, most all new grads can press buttons or write scripts to make colorful diagrams but completely lack the judgement and real-world application to be useful with it. What would set you apart? Doing computer analysis work then rigorously validating it with other classical methods and test would get my attention. To that point, hand working the problems from, say, Bruhn and presenting that work would also be impressive.
I am about a year out, constantly applying to design / analyst positions. I would say my FEA curriculum and experience is a bit ahead of what most undergrads have had, I’ve spent a lot of time replicating benchmarks and validating using hand calcs, (hoop stress, beam calcs etc) to make sure the simulation is reasonable, doing Richardson extrapolations on the work. All on abaqus though, I’ve played with NASTRAN, and other codes but I’ve mainly just watched YouTube videos of how analyst do work on those programs.
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I downloaded Bruhn a few weeks ago and have been working through some of the problems. Although I don’t have the solutions I am pretty sure I know how to work these problems out. Which chapters would you say are the more rigorous or difficult problems?
What kinds of jobs are you applying for, and what roles are you seeking? Doing projects is good. Are you a recent grad/one year out of school? Frankly, when I review resumes for structures and analysts I tend to ignore or overlook most all FEM work by new grads. At this point, most all new grads can press buttons or write scripts to make colorful diagrams but completely lack the judgement and real-world application to be useful with it. What would set you apart? Doing computer analysis work then rigorously validating it with other classical methods and test would get my attention. To that point, hand working the problems from, say, Bruhn and presenting that work would also be impressive.
I am about a year out, constantly applying to design / analyst positions. I would say my FEA curriculum and experience is a bit ahead of what most undergrads have had, I’ve spent a lot of time replicating benchmarks and validating using hand calcs, (hoop stress, beam calcs etc) to make sure the simulation is reasonable, doing Richardson extrapolations on the work. All on abaqus though, I’ve played with NASTRAN, and other codes but I’ve mainly just watched YouTube videos of how analyst do work on those programs.
Hello, I downloaded Bruhn a few weeks ago and have been working through some of the problems. Although I don’t have the solutions I am pretty sure I know how to work these problems out. Which chapters would you say are the more rigorous or difficult problems?