Do you rely on building costly prototypes, followed by repeated redesigns? Do you cross your fingers while testing your initial production parts, praying to avoid rebuilding expensive tooling? Or, do you wait to learn about failures from your customers? Regardless of your approach, every product eventually undergoes testing to ensure it meets customer requirements.
FACT: The cost of addressing design problems grows exponentially the later they're discovered in the development process.
At Situs Engineering, our expert simulation services reveal design issues early in development when changes are cost-effective and can have the greatest impact on performance, functionality, and cost.
Stress Analysis with FEA: We use Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software to predict stress and deformation in your parts and assemblies under various loading conditions, from impact and thermal to vibrational and wind loads. This helps foresee potential failures without the need for expensive prototypes.
Stress Analysis of Large Steel Structure
Topology Optimization: Our software optimizes the strength-to-weight ratio of your designs, reducing weight while maintaining performance. You don't need a final design in mind; we can start with a simple model of the maximum design space and all the mating features and loads, then let the topology study optimize the design. For more information watch Topology Optimization (Thanks to MLC CAD Systems).
Nonlinear Simulation: We analyze time-dependent loads, changing contact conditions, nonlinear materials, and structural stiffness changes due to deformation. This allows us to accurately model real-world situations beyond the capabilities of linear static analysis.
Dynamic Analysis: Dynamic simulations help us understand how your product performs under shock loads, random vibrations, or harmonic loads. For example, impact testing motorcycle wheels per JASO standards.
Fatigue Analysis: Predict failures in products subjected to repetitive (e.g., cyclical, harmonic, and random vibration) loading events. These failures may occur at stresses well below the material's yield strength.
Creep Analysis: We predict how products will stress-relax or "creep" under long-term loads, a common cause of failure for plastic and elastomer parts or steel parts at elevated temperatures.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): CFD studies visualize fluid flow and heat transfer through and around your components to measure fluid trajectories, velocities, pressures, forces, and temperatures.. This helps optimize designs, reduce drag, address overheating issues, and measure wind loads.
Injection Mold Flow Analysis: Simulates the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects in your parts before getting mold quotes. The analysis lets us optimize feature locations, wall thicknesses, gate locations, cooling channel design, and molding process parameters. The simulation can predict part warpage and even balance the runner system. Finding design issues early can save you thousands of dollars in mold rework costs.