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Simulation Type: Structural Mechanics

  • Explotechnik – Evaluating a Piston Design with FEA

    The Challenge At Explotechnik AG, some of their solutions require a high-velocity piston to generate a shockwave. In order to slow down this piston, it needs to hit against a hardened steel surface. This design requires some testing before a physical prototype can be approved for production. Before using CAE and SimScale, Explotechnik struggled getting…

  • Techtree Engineering – Sharpening a Competitive Edge with FEA

    The Challenge Downhole tools for oil drilling and well servicing are often pushed to the extreme. Operating conditions include pressure, load, temperature, and corrosive environments, while at the same time demanding designs call for the tools to be more compact. Prior to using SimScale, TechTree Engineering was limited to just using linear analysis, forcing them…

  • Ati Motors – Designing an Autonomous Cargo Vehicle Chassis

    The Challenge The need for Ati Motors was to build a new chassis for the development of autonomous cargo vehicle. In order to cut down the time of building and manually testing a chassis, which in turn costs both time and money, Ati motors decided to go with CAE that was the most promising solution.…

  • OxTS – Optimizing an ADAS Roof Mount with FEA

    The Challenge This requires antennae to be attached to the roof of the respective vehicle, and the position of these antennae with respect to each other and to the RT unit needs to be known to within a centimeter. This led to OXTS’need to develop a roof mount that could adapt to any car roof.…

  • Carbomech – Developing a High-Speed Motorized Spindle

    The Challenge Carbomech wanted to bring to the market a new air bearing spindle equipped with a DC motor which would be able to reach 180,000 rpm during operation. Being a startup, Carbomech could not afford to test all the design proposals they had. Adding numerical simulations early in the design phase of this new…

  • Stewart Technology Associates – Optimizing a Navaid Float Design

    The Challenge Taking advantage of STA’s significant experience in naval engineering, a customer requested their services for the validation of an articulated navaid’s (navigational aid) design. This was confirmed by the customer during the first live tests and resulted in significant costs and damages. To avoid further problems, the customer reached out to STA to…

  • Lazer Lamps – Validating a Screwless Headlamp Design

    The Challenge To reduce both the weight and complexity of the final product assembly, the design idea was to hold the reflector in place with the help of a plastic spring. In order to validate the proposal, a simulation project was built up, with the following objectives Test if the nominal stress in the component…

  • Schübeler Technologies – Optimizing a Fan Blade Assembly

    The Challenge Sandro Pinent, managing partner at Schübeler Technologies, is in charge of numerical calculations (CFD and FEA) and project management. Although he and his team were getting reasonable results from conventional data analysis, they decided to go one step further with numerical analysis. For finite element analysis, his team first relied on Code_Aster, but…

  • Fluence Analytics – Testing 25 Design Configurations in Minutes

    The Challenge The engineers at Fluence Analytics decided to use simulations for their ARGEN product line. There are 16 optical assemblies within a system, so rigidity of the system is important. SimScale enabled the team to test different framing configurations with different materials to find an optimal balance of weight and rigidity. The team wanted…

  • EJ Consulting – Resizing a Valve in Hours with CFD

    The Challenge EJ Consulting’s team had an existing valve that they needed to change the size of. Testing a valve physically would have been a difficult process—pumping 200-1000 GPM and accurately measuring the pressure drop, flows, and forces is not practical. The team knew that if they did not use computer-aided engineering (CAE), they would…

  • Malaika – Designing Safer Car Seats with FEA

    The Challenge The worst situation any parent could imagine is the loss of a child. Every year in Europe alone, 400 children die as a result of motor vehicle accidents and another 2,800 suffer serious injuries causing permanent disability. The forces at play in these accidents can be enormous and quite often the resulting injuries…

  • Quantex – Optimizing Disposable Pump Design

    The Challenge Moving to new verticals and markets often requires the introduction of new products. Opportunities in the food dispensing business drove the development of the biggest pump so far—the Series 20 model. Making a new, bigger model posed multiple challenges. Expensive iterative modifications to the molds would have had to be applied and the…