Baseball Bat with FEA mesh - FEA mesh in ANSYS refined at area of impact to ensure more accurate results.
Aluminum Bat Deformation - Aluminum Bat with elastic deformation shown due to impact from a fastball.
Aluminum Bat with Stresses - Stress concentrations on aluminum bat due to impact. Largest stress occurs in handle adjacent to where the bat is gripped. This is the reason bats used in Major League Baseball most often break near this point.
Titanium Bat with Deformation - Titanium Bat with deformation shown.
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ANSYS - Finite Element Analysis
ANSYS FEA software used to analyze stresses and deformations in thin-walled aluminum and titanium baseball bats modeled with contact forces due to an average fastball.