Using Advanced Structural Analysis to Minimize Risk and Cost | Give Engineering

Companies - of all sizes - must deal with risk, cost, and time when making decisions on the design of their new products. These decisions must answer questions such as how the product must look and feel, will it actually work, how to actually design it to make sure we end up with a reliable product that satisfies our customers? Advanced Structural Analysis has become an invaluable tool to help companies and teams understand their product before having to make it, and, get confidence in their design early on in the development process. With modern tools and advanced analysis techniques, structural engineering allows to minimize development risks, as well as reduce the need for costly prototypes. Whether you need to build a bridge or a skyscraper, an innovative vehicle, or a new home product, you always need - at some point or another – to answer the essential structural integrity questions that will ensure the safety and longevity of your product.

At GIVE Engineering, we specialize in providing our clients with the latest technology solutions and services to streamline their business functioning. Our team of experts is highly experienced in advanced structural analysis and is ready to assess your project, join your team in its development efforts, and offer the best and most innovative design solutions that will take into account the product’s lifecycle, performance, cost, and the actual business considerations.

So, what is advanced structural analysis and how can it minimize the risks and costs of businesses developing and engineering new products. We will cover some basics, so you know what questions to ask your engineering consultants when considering structural Analysis for your next project.

What is Structural Analysis

Let’s start by defining another term, Computational Engineering. What is in essence the process of understanding a product's behavior in the real world, by using a virtual representation of this product -a model- in our computers. Structural engineering in particular is the part of computational engineering that looks into the integrity of a product, how that will react in the real world, facing all sorts of loads (whether actual forces, loads from interaction with fluids, thermal loads, or loads such actually dropping it!). Structural engineering and analysis respond to questions such as, is the design strong enough for its purpose, will it break under this or that load, is it robust enough, will it work for the next 10 years, is it safe, does it comply with the regulations?

And there is many different techniques associated with Structural analysis, each responding to a different set of these questions, looking at the problem from a different angle, and with a different level of complexity and fidelity. Nowadays, the tools we possess and keep developing, the advanced algorithms available and no lack of computational power, allow a deep understanding of a product's response and behavior, reducing the need for several prototypes and design loops. It allowed us to change the old paradigm of designing, building, and testing, to a new scheme, where virtual testing replaces the need for numerous building phases and allows countless fast and efficient design loops till the product is ready to be built. It also allows one to jump into the design with a free mind, not stuck to the necessity of past experience and the burden of having to play safe. It allows any team to unlock the innovative process and think of new ideas never seen before, and, in the age of startups, democratizes design & development, allowing for small teams, individuals, and disruptors to prove their ideas and concepts with minimal costs and investments.

Advanced Structural analysis has changed the design and development process

Some of the available structural analysis tools include the following, which can be used individually or in combination to create even more complex models that allow a full understanding of product behavior:

•       Static stress analysis

•       Linear dynamics

•       Durability & Fatigue

•       Modal, Frequency response

•       Nonlinear analysis

•       Multibody dynamics

•       Multiphysics, fluid-structure interaction, thermal-mechanical coupling

•       Multidiscipline

•       Static and dynamic analysis

•       Thermal analysis

•       Advanced material modeling

•       Composite material analysis

•       Super-elements

•       FEA and MBD Integration

•       Nonlinear elasticity

•       Thermal variation of material properties

And let’s never forget, the most powerful tool of all.

• Hand calculations (at the end of the day, garbage in, garbage out!!)

How Advanced Structural Analysis Can Benefit Your Business

Structural Analysis is essential for any business looking to stay ahead of the competition by pushing the innovation boundaries, any organization that needs to continuously optimize its products, to make them cheaper, lighter, or more advanced, and any engineering team that wants to prove new concepts and develop them faster, any startup ready to disrupt with a new unseen to-date idea, any individual that has a concept in mind itching his brain to bring it to market. minimize risk and cost and optimize its operations.

Some of the benefits include:

●     Improved productivity with fewer delays. Structural Analysis helps you build projects faster and bring them sooner to the market to gain the advantage of early entry. Always with no sacrifice over quality or safety.

●  Reduced risks for both the project and your business. With greater modeling fidelity and precision, fewer errors occur during product development and product launch. You can simulate your product in different loading conditions, different environments, various scenarios and cases, and prepare for all before starting production.

●    Reduced costs. Structural analysis will save you money from costly prototyping phases, from large investments to build these, and capital to test them in all the possible scenarios and loading combinations. It will also save you money by helping you create sound and safe products, from production to the market.

●     Advantage over the competition. Not only it will allow you to create more innovative products, but structural analysis will allow you also to loop faster in the design, and bring your product to the market in a third of the time.

●  Better data visualization - Advanced Structural Analysis provides better ways to visualize design data, making it easier to identify potential problems before they arise. This can help reduce mistakes and failure rates (problematic products), protecting your branding and raising customer satisfaction.

To sum it up, Structural Analysis can help your business reach impressive new heights — all at a fraction of the cost and risk! That’s all.

Conclusion

At GIVE Engineering, we understand its importance to businesses and products. We understand its necessity in pushing the engineering boundaries toward the products of the future. And then, we strive to provide our clients with the best technology and solutions, streamline their business functioning, and help them find the right ways to bring their ideas to life.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you get the job done.