Engineering Research has many years of experience of simulation based analysis, design, and development. We specialize in applications requiring a so-called non-linear analysis, i.e. where one or more of the following applies:

• large deformations of the structure,
• contacts,
• failure or fracture of the structure,
• low-cycle fatigue,
• impacts.

We also perform standard linear static stress analyses and modal analyses.

Applications

Examples of applications that we work or have worked on are:

• Roll-over:
• Heavy vehicles
• Construction equipment
• Trucks
• Buses
• Various mechanical components and structures subject to over-load or abuse:
• Gear shift mechanism
• Pneumatic cylinder
• Saw blades
• Rubber seals and their behaviour, e.g. car door weather seals
• Drop tests and impacts of containers:
• Nuclear industry
• Fluid filled containers
• Turbine fan blade ice impacts and bird ingestion

See also the images to the right.

Knowledge and resources

In the above areas we can deliver high quality work due to our in depth knowledge and experience in all the relevant fields:

• Material modelling
• Implicit and explicit simulation
• Impact events
• Thermal analysis
• Optimisation and robustness analysis
• Visualisation

We also have the considerably computer resources needed to deliver results on time.

Visualisation

To understand complex phenomena reporting and visualisation are important. We can make high quality renderings and animations of the events making the results of the simulation more accessible. For an example of the work we can do see the following visualisation from a project financed by the Swedish Road Administration

Contact us for more information

For more information, simply give us a call and ask to talk to one of our structural analysis experts. Contact information