PROCEDURE OF FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
Considered an example of automobile piston . A piston during the operation of ic engine which is subjected to various loads like impact load , friction load , Due to this load the stress distribution is may taken in piston body . The stress distribution is determined by using finite element analysis approach , which entire body of piston is divided into smaler elements called finite elements .These elements may be cuboidal , prism etc. These elements are connected at corner vertices . Once the entire stress distribution is on entire piston body then design improvement can be increased by wall thickness .
1 . CHOOSING THE APPROXIMATE SYSTEM
The analysis is first restricted to single field element by finding the value of field variables at the nodes of the piston . The value of field variable at the entire element domain can be found out by extrapolating the value of nods and approximating the system . These are done by analysis polynomial expression , which is easy to integrate or differentiate .
2 . FORMING THE ELEMENT MATRIX OR EQUATION
The analysis of single element is done by applying the equation of equillibrium to that element . These equation is expressed in the matrix form called element matrix . Such element matrix can be generated for each of the element .
3 . ASSEMBLING THE MATRICES
The element matrices of all the elements are combined oe assemble to form global stiffness matrix which represent the entire body . The boundary condition is applied on global stiffness matrix which reduce the size of global matrix .
4 . FINDING THE ENTIRE FIELD VARIABLES
The unknown field variable can be find on from global stiffness matrix by using gauss elimination approach . The value of field variable is known as nodle point . which ultimately can be find the value of field variables of entire element domain .
5 . INTERPRETING THE RESULT
Once the value of field variable is find out then conclusion is drawn , and approximation modification is incorporated into original design in order to improve the design .

















