Happy World Creativity and Innovation Day! 💡 To celebrate here's some nerdilicious #canopyporn from our Chief Nerd Julien. This is FEA (Finite Element Analysis) on a canopy. It's a method to compute deformation of structures under given constraints. It's widely used to design mechanical parts or buildings but it's challenging to do on parachutes because of the fabric which stretches a lot but not equally in all direction (anisotropic material) but also the amplitude of deformations, the high de

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