Engineering Consulting
Many engineering departments do not have access to the software required or lack the engineering staff to perform some of the more advanced engineering analysis assignment. Or even if the software tools are available, tight time constraints often make it impossible to acquire the level of knowledge required to perform some of the "higher-end" finite element modeling.
These are just some of the scenarios where we can assist our customers with the various aspects of their product development cycle. A few examples are shown below:
Capital Equipment
Kx assisted in the design of a new line of injection molding machines by analyzing the machine platens and bases for deflection and stress.
Automotive
Components
Using FEA, Kx helped iterate through a series of design changes to determine a configuration which meets manufacturing requirements while maintaining part functionality and desired part life.
Biomedical Implants
The orthopedic implant industry is regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Thorough testing procedures are necessary before an implant is approved for general use. Typically, this involves a variety of physical and analytical assessments including the determination of sustainable stresses in a particular implant and the corresponding peak load-carrying capacity.
From trauma products to total joint replacement, Kx has been a valued supplier of engineering analysis solutions to the biomedical implant industry for many years.
Aerospace Industry
Kx has completed a large variety of projects for the aerospace industry ranging from short-term assignments with focus on quick turn-around to long-term engagements where Kx engineers act as an extensions of our customers' engineering staff with project scopes extending beyond 1 year.
Below are just a few highlights of the work we have done:
- Developed methodology for analysis of mutually exclusive time and temperature dependent film coefficients to capture “spike” heat transfer in fuel nozzles
- Transient thermal/structural analyses of exhaust nozzle components including mission data loading
- Repair and preparation of a variety of complex turbine and nozzle geometries for clean translation into ANSYS using CADfix
- Engineering analysis support on the GE 90-115B Test Inlet.
- Automation of parametric calculation methods for sonic fatigue, ply failure, buckling and crippling, thermal loads in splices and edge bands, and inter-rivet buckling.
