Talk:Stress analysis

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[edit] Combining Stress analysis with Structural analysis?

I suggest that this be combined with Structural analysis. "Stress analysis" is really an old-fasioned way of looking at structural analysis, and should be a redirect to the current version of "Structural analysis", which already makes mention of the pertinent points (as well as the term) of this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MQuinn (talk • contribs)

• The areas do overlap a lot. Stress analysis is one part of structural anlaysis (others includes dynamics, thermal maybe, etc). The articles could be combined, but they are long enough to stand on their own also. -Fnlayson 00:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

• The point is Structural analysis is the examination of a structure, and whilst it will generally include stress analysis structural analysis is a process whereas stress analysis is a method. It is similar to saying maths and integration are the same thing because you will invariably use and mention integration in maths - Sam Lacey 14:19, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Yea, yea. Like I said the articles are long enough to stand on their own. That's not a reason to combine. I don't see a good reason stated for combining.. -Fnlayson 15:01, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
  • I have to say though I am a little stumped as to really what should go in there seeing as there is already page for finite element modelling, beam bending, stiffness matrices - I was thinking along the lines of neatening up the current page (to bring it inline with the new guidelines), and altering the matrix stuff to go a little deeper, perhaps walkthrough the FEM of a series of elements to demonstrate the point. I dont really think the spring explains it particularly well - Sam Lacey 15:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
    • I reworked some parts of this article to remove the FEM details. That's covered on the linked pages. -Fnlayson 16:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

• If, as you have said, stress analysis is a subset of structural analysis, then it would make more sense to leave it as it's own topic so as not to make the structural analysis site unwieldy. In fact, I would remove the duplicate material from the structural analysis site. Then, the structural analysis site could reference the stress analysis one, using wikipedia in a more efficient manner.