COMSOL Multiphysics Tips and Tricks: Intelligent selection of structural supports is important.

This is our COMSOL Tips and Tricks video on how intelligent selection of structural supports is important and what we mean by structural supports. We describe and explain the four standard structural support definitions of Roller, Pinned, Fixed, and Simple (frictionless surface), and why intelligent selection of structural supports is important. Our senior engineer, Josh Thomas, shares real-world examples of structures that would need intelligent support constraints, why trustworthy structural modeling requires wise selection of support constraints, and why it's important to understand where you've turned your model off and are making boundary condition assumptions - that it's representative of the real world, and maybe intuition alone is unreliable, contrary to what the Internet gurus might tell us.