In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the NASA Ames 5 degrees-of-freedom motion simulator is shown on June 6, 1962. This simulator incorporated a centrifuge with a 30 foot spin radius.
When computer-aided engineering (CAE) methods became available for design work in the 1980s, finite element analysis (FEA) was the first to be widely adopted. Over the years, it's helped design ...