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I republished this post again by uploading the videos to YouTube.  I will continue to post videos on my teacher blog because some schools do not have access to YouTube.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Last year I spent a great deal of time with mechanical engineering students reviewing their senior design projects featuring SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulaton, and SolidWorks Sustainability.  So I got to thinking back when I taught Engineering Mechanics – Statics.  What if I had SolidWorks as a tool, how would my lessons be different?  Certainly I felt my students were prepared for their next classes if they mastered problems from great authors such as Hibbler, Bedford and Fowler, Beers and Johnson.  But what if I could enhance the experience and tie Solid Mechanics as a second year student into the senior design capstone project that would come years later – and make it easier to understand with realistic problems? \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So I asked Artem, a mechanical engineering student,  to help me develop a collection of “SolidWorks is Engineering” examples that will take free body diagrams, differential equations, and Mechanical Engineering competencies and analyze a problem students would associate with – all in preparation for the Senior Capstone Design course.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>We start first with my favorite, “SolidWorks is Statics”  Why?  You have to understand a Rigid Body at rest – before you move on to more difficult problems that would be faced in Dyanmics, Machine Design and Kinematics.     \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>SolidWorks Simulation is our Finite Element Analysis Tool.  You can use it for static analysis, fatigue, vibration, drop test, optimization, non-linear analysis and more.  But first we will start with a static analysis of a bicycle frame.  Apply material, loads and fixtures to joints, review axial stress, bending, displacement and strain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This is a Engineering Mechanics Statics 3D problem.  The bicycle frame model  file and its solution are able for you to download.  I always liked when professors gave me the solution to look at.  The video is silent; it contains no audio.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Select Tools,  Add Ins, SolidWorks Simulation to run the bike frame analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002F6a00d83451706569e20147e1d38171970b-800wi.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65336\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002F6a00d83451706569e20147e1d38171970b-800wi.jpg.webp 600w, https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002F6a00d83451706569e20147e1d38171970b-800wi-300x193.jpg.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003Cp>Initial Model \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fsolidworks.typepad.com\u002Ffiles\u002Fbike_frame_.sldprt\" data-id=\"65337\">Download Bike_frame_\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Final Model and Analysis Solution \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Fbike_frame_solution.zip\" data-id=\"65337\">Download Bike_frame_solution\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Video \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Fsolidworks-is-statics-part-1.avi\" data-id=\"65337\">Download SolidWorks is Statics (Part 1)\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Video \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog-assets.solidworks.com\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Fsolidworks-is-statics-part-2.avi\" data-id=\"65337\">Download SolidWorks is Statics (Part 2)\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cdiv class=\"ds-video\">\u003Ca data-3ds-videoplayer=\"modal\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=7U7zVlJY3Uw\" target=\"_blank\">\u003Cspan class=\"ImageCover Border Block\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\u002F\u002Fimg.youtube.com\u002Fvi\u002F7U7zVlJY3Uw\u002Fhqdefault.jpg); width:100%; height: 100%;\">\u003Cspan class=\"Btn--circle isCenter\">\u003Ci class=\"Icon Icon--playBig\">\u003C\u002Fi>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan>\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fdiv>","2011-01-27T17:04:00",{"node":34,"__typename":45},{"nicename":35,"description":36,"slug":37,"name":38,"firstName":39,"lastName":40,"avatar":41,"__typename":44},"marie-planchard","Marie Planchard is an education and engineering advocate. 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