When not being held, our cellphones are rarely more than an arm’s reach away. With so much handling, dropping them is a common occurrence. According to a survey by Allstate, around 78 million Americans reported damaging their cellphones in 2023, with cracked screens accounting for 67% of that damage (Ref. 1). Your phone may be unscathed after some drops and shattered after others, so how do we know what conditions are most likely to cause damage? Version 6.4 of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software introduces new functionality for performing time-explicit structural dynamics analyses, including simulating a phone drop test. Read more
