We offer design engineering, design for manufacture and analysis solutions that allow customers to achieve performance goals with optimal lowest weight and operational costs. Our extensive experience in the aerospace, defense, interiors, nuclear and rail industries allow us to provide a wide array of engineering and design capabilities to help reduce risk while facilitating tangible results and ensuring our customers success.
Design & Engineering
With over 40 years in the field of structural composite materials technology, our team has the specialized knowledge and international experience to engineer leading edge solutions for a wide range of projects that enhance structural performance at a minimum procurement cost.
Design
- Aerospace Structures
- Marine Structures
- Land Systems/Structures
Analysis
- Stress Analysis – Static, Fatigue, Dynamic
- Requirements – Safety, Environmental
- Acoustic Analysis – Sonar Domes
- RF Analysis – Radomes – Air and Sea domains
- Extended Engineering Analysis (use list below as an expandable list)
Testing
- Material Qualification, strength and environmental – B Basis allowables
- Part Testing and support
- Production Testing. X ray, UT, HTT
Product Development
- Design Control using ENOVIA PLM
- Rapid Prototyping to produce representative parts for trials purposes
- Low-cost design for manufacture
- Quick response, quality customer care and value added service
Industry standard design tools used
- CATIA V4, V5
- SOLIDWORKS
- NASTRAN/PATRAN, MARC
Engineering Capabilities
- Documentation, compliance & customer acceptance of design
- Complex design models
- Lightning strike & electrical bonding
- RF analysis
- Vibration & endurance predictions
- Fatigue predictions
- Thermal expansion
- Stiffness limits & sealing
- Impact performance (Bird, Hail, BVID)
- Adhesive bonding strength at elevated temperature
- Manufacturing process & quality improvements - NPI
- First Part Qualification, tear down
- Weight control
We support qualification of parts via submission of comprehensive documentation and first part qualification. (i.e. not specifically reliant on customer specifications and methods of work.)
There is a high level of independence with our Engineering capability that is not OEM dependant
Recent Design & Build Projects
Aerospace
- Cobham Mission Equipment
- - 908E Rear Fairing
- - 912E Rear Fairing
- - Fwd Probe Fairing
- Pall Aerospace
- - AC313 EAPS
- - AW169 EAPS
- Flight Trial Radome
Defense
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US Military MSLAAS
- BAE
- - Composite Structure
- - Concept Sonar Dome
- UK MOD
- - Composite PA
- Ultra Electronics
- - Marine Sensors
- - Cobham KC390 Probe Fairings
