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Ensure the structural and thermal integrity, performance, and reliability of your designs with our expert FEA consulting services.
Engineering Expertise for All Types of Finite Element Analysis Projects
SimuTech Group has been in the structural analysis and FEA (finite element analysis) consulting business for 40+ years. With approximately 30 FEA engineers on staff and over 400 combined staff-years of FEA consulting experience, we have the expertise to meet your most challenging structural and thermal simulation needs.
We use the powerful Ansys suite of FEA tools including Ansys Mechanical, Ansys LS-dyna, Ansys Motion and Ansys nCode DesignLife on a daily basis. Our engineers will guide your teams with meaningful FEA simulation results, results interpretation, and conclusions that allow you to make data-driven structural and thermal design decisions and bring your products and processes to market ahead of deadlines.
SimuTech Group also offers expertise in optimization and robust design methods. If your designs must operate over a broad range of conditions and are built from components with real-world manufacturing tolerances, optimization can make a significant difference. You’ll realize robust performance over a wide envelope of operating conditions and reduce warranty costs.
Expert FEA Consulting Experience
Our structural and thermal analysis consulting engineers have experience in a vast array of industries that inherently benefit from FEA, including:
- Aerospace
- Power and Energy
- Rotating and Turbo-Machinery
- Automotive and Heavy Truck
- Electronics Devices and Enclosures
- Medical Devices and Implants
- Military and Defense
- Consumer Products
- Process and Instrumentation
- Agriculture Equipment
- Material Handling and Manufacturing Equipment
- Petroleum Exploration and Production
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Predict the Performance of Your Design Based on Multiple Criteria
FEA can be used to predict the performance of a given design under a diverse array of loading conditions.
Under what internal pressure will it burst? Under what static loads will it collapse? At what environment temperature will thermal stresses result in failure? What is the expected service life under cyclic loading? Will operating the design within a specified frequency range (operating speeds) excite resonant frequencies that will prematurely damage the structure? Will existing cracks in the structure grow to the extent of catastrophic failure under a specified number of load cycles?
SimuTech Group’s expert FEA consulting engineers have successfully answered these questions many times in our 40+ years in the business. We welcome the opportunity to partner with you in developing next generation designs by supporting your FEA related simulation needs.
FEA, Structural & Thermal Consulting Disciplines
Static Structural
- Linear elastic
- Nonlinear including contact, large deflection/strain and material nonlinearities
- Thermal stress
Linear Dynamics
- Modal
- Harmonic response
- Random vibration (PSD)
- Sine on random
- Seismic response
- Shock response
Nonlinear Dynamics
- Flexible body time domain transient
- Rigid body dynamics
- Explicit dynamics
- Drop test
- Vehicle crash
- Ballistics
- Explosives and blast propagation
- High speed metal forming
Thermal Analysis and Heat Transfer
- Steady state
- Transient
Composite Components and Structures
- Long and short fiber composites
- Anisotropic material definition
- Failure criteria specific to composite materials
- Fatigue specific to composite materials
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics
- Fatigue:
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- High cycle fatigue (Stress Life S-N, and Strain Life e-N)
- Low cycle fatigue (Strain Life e-N)
- Thermo-mechanical fatigue
- Simplified and complex duty cycle load histories
- Fracture mechanics and crack propagation
- Fracture Mechanics:
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- Fracture Toughness Quantities: Stress Intensity Factors (SIFs) and/or Strain Energy Release Rate (J-Integral) prediction based on crack size and applied loading
- Static or fatigue crack propagation (manual calculations, and/or use of Ansys SMART Crack Growth) to predict cycles to failure (e.g. Paris Law)
Acoustics
- Vibration induced acoustics
- Noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH)
Coupled Physics
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Structural-thermal coupled
- Structural-electromagnetic coupled
- Piezo-electric
- Structural-optics coupled
Optimization and Design of Experiments
- Parametric optimization
- Topology optimization
- Shape optimization
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Our team of experienced engineers can assist you at any step of your process.