Your understanding of FEA is correct. In the case of transients, we need to use time discretization techniques like Newmark algorithms. In the case of non-linear systems, we need to use an iterative solver like Newton-Raphson.
There are plenty of courses available on ANSYS Innovation Space related to these topics. These two courses below will help you understand the transient and non-linear solutions.
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