Rinse, Repeat

I must admit that the work was very interesting and I think that may have been because I was in command of the direction of the job, however, that started to change somewhat as other programs competed for the FEA work.

The process of stick models was repetitive, some would be initially stable and then go berzerk after two or three iterations, the goal being to have a stable model after five or so iterations to ensure that all internal loads and reactions reflected a balance at the deformed geometry.

I was lucky as I could zone out when running things over and over and over again, probably as my IQ is around that of a turnip, although that might be a bit insulting to that particular root vegetable.