Engineering Services

Analysis and Simulation


Simulation is a vital tool in understanding existing designs and for developing new ones. It's much more than auto-meshing CAD and making "pretty pictures", it's all about finding out what is really going on in a system.

TSI offers a broad range of analysis and simulation services to industries including automotive, aerospace, consumer product, industrial equipment, biomedical and general structures.

TSI's in-house simulation tools include Altair HyperWorks, LSTC LS-DYNA and now ABAQUS\Simulia; all of which are world-leading analysis codes.

Structural Analysis and Large Assemblies

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Solutions:

  • Implicit or explicit solvers (Altair OptiStruct/RADIOSS, LS-DYNA, SIMULIA\ABAQUS)
  • Linear and nonlinear solutions including contact
  • Advanced modeling for efficient large assemblies
  • Normal modes, random response, forced response vibration
  • Complex load cases including sequential loading such as bolt preload and combined loading sequences such as gravity and pressure loads
  • Loads imparted by assembly processes
  • Durability analysis
  • Thermal analysis (steady state and transient)
  • Coupled structural-thermal-fluid analysis
  • Stochastic analysis
  • Test data processing

Applications:

  • Transportation: Automotive, Niche Vehicle, Sports Cars, EV's, Commercial Vehicles
  • Industrial equipment and machines
  • Pressure vessels and regulated products
  • Consumer products
  • Aerospace
  • Exercise equipment and recreational products
  • Other structures and systems

Mechanisms, Motion and Multibody Dynamics

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Solutions:

  • Full featured multi-body dynamics modeling and simulation using the Altair MotionSolve suite
  • Kinematics, dynamics and quasi-static solutions
  • Biomechanics, ergonomics and human factors
  • Vehicle modeling library including advanced tire models
  • Vibration and durability analysis of complex, nonlinear systems
  • Flexbody or coupled multi-body/finite element solutions
  • Combined control system integration using Matlab/Simulink

Applications:

  • Vehicle dynamics
  • Mechanism and machine design
  • Structure and durability analysis
  • Advanced vibration analysis for nonlinear systems
  • Structural loads development

Crash and Impact

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Solutions:

  • Advanced explicit solutions using LS-Dyna and RADIOSS
  • Vehicle barrier and dummy models
  • ALE, SPH and coupled fluid-structure interaction solutions
  • Experience developing models and correlating results to test
  • Nonlinear material modeling in metals, nonmetals and composites

Applications:

  • Vehicle crash simulation and development
  • Impact and ballistics problems
  • Impulse loading
  • Consumer products
  • Electronic component integrity

Advanced Materials

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Solutions:

  • Composites
  • Nonlinear metals and nonmetals
  • Thermal modeling
  • Biological materials (viscoelastic)
  • Multi-phase materials
  • Fluid-structure interaction

Applications:

  • Biomechanics
  • Energy absorption
  • Heat transfer
  • Fluid interactions

Manufacturing and Optimization

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Solutions:

  • One-step metal stamping
  • Incremental metal stamping - progressive part development
  • Part optimization including thickness, forming, stiffness
  • Tooling analysis and optimization
  • Weight reduction and cost saving

Applications:

  • All metal forming industries
  • Product design industries
  • Aerospace
  • Automotive
  • Any industry where saving money is important
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