Mechanical Design & Analysis
Mechanical Design & Analysis is an ever-growing part of our business with our skills principally being used in the transport industry. However, our depth of mechanical engineering knowledge is just as applicable in other key areas such as construction and defence projects.
Our collaborative approach to projects allows us draw on skills from across the team, our suppliers and our customers, in developing structural safety cases or considering how human factors affect our designs.
With a full suite of mechanical, circuit and electrical design and analysis tools on hand, including an extensive code library for real-time load reconstruction, we supply a range of engineering design and analysis expertise, including 3D modelling.
Other areas our team covers include:
- Finite element analysis (FEA), including advanced non-linear, thermal and dynamic analysis
- Fatigue and damage tolerance analysis of machines and structures
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Thermal Analysis
- 3D modelling & simulation
- Certification of structures
EngAnalysis use a data driven approach to mechanical design and analysis, utilising field measurements to establish operational load cases and constraints to the model, minimising the number of assumptions and unknowns. The complimentary skill sets within the team of field testing, computational modelling and design allows for a full-service approach to mechanical design and analysis
Failure Analysis & Investigation
The EngAnalysis team are using measurement, modelling and data analysis methods to undertake failure analysis and investigations. Our methods identify the extent and cause of problems enabling us to recommend effective solutions based on operational data, analysis and investigation. By investigating the root cause with the use of early fault detection and real-time monitoring, we provide a comprehensive failure analysis, allowing us to recommend optimal, evidence-based solutions that will meet project objectives. Following the identification of root cause, our engineering team can assist in developing solutions through redesign of components or processes.
Over the years, we have had extensive experience in engineering investigations, covering areas including:
- Real-time monitoring of crack growth in metal and concrete structures
- Cast, fabricated and forged component failure analysis and investigation
- Fatigue cracking investigation and repair/modification development
- Determination of inspection regimes for structures subject to fatigue damage
- IoT solutions for remote monitoring and development of asset health assessment algorithms
- Investigation into root cause of excessive or unusual component wear
- Strain gauging and measurement on PCBs through automated assembly lines to identify high strain processes
- Contribution of track conditions to rail vehicle and component fatigue life
- Use of field deployed, custom computer vision systems to track components and observe failures
- Investigations for warranty and insurance purposes
- Failure Modes & Effects Analysis
Specialised System Development
While the majority of the services and solutions we provide are bespoke, for truly ‘out of the box’ unique problems or developing a product solution, our team excels. With such a wide range of experience and education, our team’s power of innovation and comprehensive problem solving is unparalleled.
It is not uncommon for our services and team members to be called upon by our industry peers, to collaborate or in an advisory capacity. By assisting in a wide variety of specialised system development, we grow our own knowledge base and expand our capabilities through the experience of others.
Covering inhouse expertise from electronics and firmware, through mechanical and structural to cloud database, PLC and SCADA integration we have all aspects of product development covered. Such examples include:
- Wagon structural monitoring: custom electronics and software designed and deployed on a fleet of vehicles to monitor for structural damage
- Machinery fatigue monitoring – Full DAQ and analysis system design, real-time load case reconstruction and fatigue analysis
- Custom fibre optic displacement sensors for underwater deployment
- Custom wireless measurement and monitoring systems
Our team is well equipped to manage projects through all project lifecycle stages from concept to closeout.