Rubber parts such as silicone diaphragms, septums, seals, valves, tubing, and balloons are critical components in many of today’s medical devices. FEA can be an excellent tool for design engineers to ...

Once reserved for the aerospace and automotive industries, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has become ubiquitous in general industrial applications because of its effectiveness in digitally modeling ...

• Trellebor engineers compared test data and FEA for many common plastics and elastomers. • Results show FEA is a good way to predict seal behavior. Finite-element analysis (FEA) has come of age for ...

Correct material selection is a critical factor in eliminating warranty and recall risk in plastic products and components. Here is a primer for some, and a reminder for others, on some of the basic ...