What is FEA (Finite Element Analysis)?
When you have an object with a weird shape that can’t be analyzed easily FEA is used. FEA breaks the object into a finite amount of little pieces and evaluates the characteristics about those pieces with respect to the other elements around it.
For example a ski.
With FEA as ski is broken up it to tons of little pieces. The program then evaluates how each little piece acts around and with the other and gives a larger picture. The ski.
FEA allows designers to analyse as they design and change and update models to reach workable solutions much earlier in the design process.