Stress Analysis & Finite Element Analysis
How our stress analysis can help you
- Simplify complex problems into easy-to-understand results
- Calculate strength, fatigue life and vibration of components and assembled structures.
- Predict potentially dangerous and costly structural inadequacies ahead of manufacture, and identify their potential solutions
- Optimise weights and structural efficiencies of components and structures
- Shorten your design cycle and bring products to market sooner
- Quickly and cheaply investigate design suitability
- Understand failures and implement corrective actions
- Increase confidence early in the design process
We are trusted by our customers to perform complex structural analysis across a range of industries
Jesmond Engineering has a proven track record of delivering detailed structural assessments of complex products. Our team possesses decades of experience across an array of safety-critical engineering industries. Using hand calculations and industry-leading software, we are capable of conducting various analyses, including:
- Static Strength Analysis
- Non-linear Analysis
- Transient/Shock Analysis
- Thermal Analysis
- Impact & Bird Strike Analysis
- Dynamic Analysis
- Normal Modes
- Vibration
- Frequency Response
Our specialist engineers are experienced across a range of FEA (Finite Element Analysis) software packages and can be flexible to your needs.
We’d love to help with your project
If you are planning a project or struggling with a complex engineering scenario that might benefit from specialist stress analysis support, then we would love to help. Click below to book a call to discuss your requirements.
What is Stress Analysis?
Stress analysis uses a combination of hand-calculations and finite element analysis to assess metallic, non-metallic and composite structures. Stress analysis assesses the suitability of designs and materials to withstand certain applied loads, such as extreme and emergency cases defined in regulatory requirements. Some problems can be assessed through hand calculations only using first principles. More complex designs are likely to require FEA software for accurate results.
Using stress analysis in the design phase increases design confidence and massively reduces risk later in the engineering life cycle, such as a test failure. Early engagement to assess the structural suitability of a design allows for a robust strength assessment, as well as optimisation of a design, reducing weight, materials and cost while increasing strength and durability.
Stress analysis allows a range of design assessments to be performed before any manufacturing time and cost is incurred, allowing our customers to qualify their products for use and bring them to market quicker than traditional testing methods would allow.
- Extensively prototype your project using simulation before committing to a real-world build
- Predict project outcomes in a wide range of scenarios and environments
- Use industry-leading software packages to solve complex engineering problems with multiple interdependent variables
- Explore and analyse environments and systems that may be expensive or impractical to test in the real world
- Evaluate project designs against regulatory, budgetary and practical requirements
- Diagnose and troubleshoot operational systems using FE simulation
Stress Analysis Explained
When an external load is applied to any structure, catastrophic failure can occur through a variety of failure modes, including buckling instability or exceedance of material strength. Stress analysis is the discipline of calculating internal load distributions and the corresponding stresses and strains within the structure’s component parts. Carrying out stress analysis on a component or structure allows us to identify its load capacity, weakest points and modes of failure.
Depending on the required level of complexity, stress analysis can be conducted by hand, or using 1D, 2D or 3D Finite Element Models, which are typically used to solve problems with complex geometries or loading conditions such as shock and vibration.
As one of the UK’s most experienced Stress Analysis consultancies, we have assisted a range of clients across aerospace, defence and other safety-critical industries to identify design flaws, implement design changes and bring improved products to market quickly.
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Stress Analysis & FEA FAQs
You probably have questions about the our Stress Analysis and Finite Element Analysis service. Some of the most frequently asked are answered below. If you still have questions, then please get in touch and we’ll happily provide an answer if we can!
It really does depend on the complexity and scope of your project. We’d be happy to discuss this with you in more detail and provide a firm estimate of the cost once we have a clear understanding of your project requirements.
Our team of engineers have a breadth of experience assessing complex assemblies across a range of industries. We are comfortable performing stress analysis on complex designs with wide-ranging materials.
Yes, we can. Our quality approval covers both ISO 9001 and AS9100 certification for the aviation, space and defence industries.
Not at all. Although we are located in East Yorkshire in the North of England, we have clients in the UK, throughout Europe and the rest of the world. We do not currently hold insurance for carrying out work for US or Canadian companies but we can discuss this with you further depending on your project.
We have experience across a range of FEA packages so can be flexible to your needs.
Yes, we can use CAD models provided by our customers in a range of file formats.
Simple—get in touch with us to book a call with one of our specialist engineers. Once we have discussed your project and gained a full understanding of its requirements we’ll produce a formal proposal. This will include an estimate of the timescales and costs, and our terms of business. If you are happy to proceed, we can commence work on receipt of your order.
Let us help
If you are planning a project or struggling with a complex engineering scenario that might benefit from the Stress Analysis or Finite Element Analysis then we would like to help. Click below to book a call to discuss your requirements.