Structural Analysis
Structural analysis determines whether battery pack enclosures, mounting systems, and cell interconnect structures can withstand the mechanical loads — vibration, shock, crush, and thermal cycling — imposed by their operating environment without yielding, fracturing, or losing fatigue life. As a hard skill it requires setting up and solving finite-element models in tools such as ANSYS or Abaqus, interpreting stress and displacement results against material allowables, and translating automotive or aerospace load cases into analysis inputs. Engineers apply these techniques during pack structural design, regulatory crash certification (UN ECE R100, FMVSS 305), and root-cause analysis of field failures where a structural member cracked or deformed in service.
