Structural analysis
PCA's immense turbomachinery structural design experience is a principal strength and enables us to provide total component designs for our clients.
PCA's structural expertise is chiefly in turbomachinery design, but we have a wide background of experience, and our analysis systems are applicable to most classes of structural design. So PCA is able to undertake solutions of a diverse range of structural problems.
Our vast turbomachinery structural design experience also enables us to be very effective in component failure and trouble-shooting investigations.
Our aims in structural analysis are:
- to resource client projects with expert staff
- to apply state-of-art structural analysis software
- to have appropriate interaction with the aerodynamic desgn
- to achieve a clear outcome
- to meet delivery timescales
- to ensure that all the client’s requirements are met
- to ensure a safe structural design that meets all necessary design margins
Flutter of an aero-engine fan
Examples of structural analysis are:
- Design of automotive turbocharger compressor and turbine
- Flutter analysis of an advanced aero engine fan blade
- Failure investigation of an LP steam turbine blade
- Unsteady aero-mechanical behaviour of a high aspect ratio gas turbine stator
- Stress and vibration analysis of a low specific speed centrifugal compressor
- Stress and vibration analysis of a micro-gas-turbine rotor
- Unsteady aero-mechanical analysis of a steam turbine stage
- Thermal and stress analysis of a heat exchanger
All of these were completed on time and to the customer’s satisfaction
An automotive turbocharger turbine wheel