Stress Corrosion Cracking Mitigation
Failures of structures often involve environmentally assisted cracking. Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is one of the most common environmentally assisted failure modes encountered. It typically ocurrs due to improper materials selection or heat treatment, design issues, and unforseen environmental conditions, i.e., inadequate maintenance, thermal transient conditions, or lack of consideration of residual stresses.

Outsource Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Services

Your concept looks great on paper, but will it stand loading conditions in reality? You are sure that the design you have in mind will withstand the structural loading, but how will the product behave when both thermal and structural loading occur simultaneously? You have a tight budget; would you like to reduce the amount of experimental testing? Optimal Consulting can help you solve these problems and meet your product requirements through detailed product testing.

Optimal Consulting performs vibration analyses not only to determine design life of structures, but also determine how a component failed. Most physical systems vibrate - inherent vibration modes in structures can shorten equipment life, and cause premature failure. Often, these failures are catastrophic.

When a physical system vibrates, it does so at particular natural frequencies - these frequencies and resulting mode shapes can be determined using Modal Analysis. Often, simple modal analysis can be performed, while for more complex systems, finite element analysis is performed to determine to determine the dynamic response.