http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372902/Britains-oldest-working-TV-1936-goes-hammer.html
I wonder how many televisions built today will still work in 75 years time?
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A colleague of mine brought the following to my attention:-
"Actually, because Patran is single precision, accuracy is only 6 sig figures (even though can write out 7 figures, the last is not necessarily accurate)
A workaround to problems with significant figures/accuracy is to scale the model...
Poor old MSC have been taking quite a battering in the last 12 months, firstly with UGS terminating Nastran for Windows, then inviting N4W users to ditch MSC and take up Femap bundled with NX/Nastran, and more recently UGS have extended their agressive marketing campaign to target MSC/Patran...
I am familiar with the term "h-method" in that it means a conventional FE analysis, and that "p-method" utilises much fewer elements but with very high order polynomials (up to degree 15?) for the shape and displacement functions, and I assume rightly or wrongly that the "P" stands for...
