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      <title>Modal and harmonic analysis: when frequency decides</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What modal and harmonic analysis each compute, why natural frequencies are found on a prestressed structure, and how resonances are compared relatively.</description>
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      <title>Section properties from DXF: the torsion constant CAD leaves out</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Get section properties from a DXF, including the torsion constant It, warping constant Iw, shear centre and Wpl that CAD omits — plus the polar moment trap.</description>
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      <title>Non-linear FEA not converging: local instability or real collapse?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Reading residuals, contact elements and the stiffness curve to tell local instability from collapse — and why damping is not the first answer.</description>
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      <title>FEA decision map: thirteen decisions before you press Solve</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A tutorial shows you where the buttons are. This is about what to choose: idealisation, material, boundary conditions, stability, mesh, criterion.</description>
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      <title>FEA basics: why the highest stress in your model may mean nothing</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What an FEA solver actually computes, where meaningless stress peaks in sharp corners come from, and how to prove a result is trustworthy.</description>
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