Competences
Femto Engineering’s early analysis of product designs can save a lot of time and money. Before even a prototype is made, the use of our sophisticated computer tools allows designs to be evaluated and optimised with respect to their functional specification.
Consultancy
Femto consultancy services are carried out for a wide range of products, including process equipment, offshore structures, railway vehicles and interior systems, structural packaging, automotive accessories, and consumer goods. Femto Engineering’s clients range from small design companies to large multinationals. We have successfully carried out assignments for a wide array of clients in various industries, including:
Femto Engineering has succesfully completed assigments for several companies:
ASML, SBM Offshore, FMC Technologies, Driessen A.I.S., Eurospiraal BV, Grasso Products, Hogeschool Rotterdam, GustoMSC, IV infra b.v., Koch Otto York, Marin, Heerema Marine Contractors , Meyer Werft, OIP Sensor Systems, Van Oord, SMIT Engineering,Sara Lee, Tea for Two Balkons, Teijin Twaron, FrieslandCampina, TU-Delft en TNO Bouw.
In engineering practice, thorough analysis is usually reserved for major components with clearly identifiable risks. Other components are usually analysed in the final stage of the product development. In such traditional ‘build-test-fail’ cycles, a lot of money, time and effort is spent modifying designs, changing drawings and updating documentation.
The time and cost needed to correct problems increases enormously with each successive step of the product development cycle: conceptual design, detailed design, prototyping, testing and production. Moving product analysis to the fore, however, compresses the product development cycle, because it changes the moment at which errors are found and the design is refined.
Areas of analysis
Femto Engineering offers services in the following areas of analysis and combinations thereof:
Linear & Advanced Nonlinear structural analysis
- Strength & Stiffness assessments
- Nonlinear analysis, inlcuding contact
- Buckling and stability analyses
- Modal & Dynamic Response analysis
- Impact analysis (both implicit & explicit)
- Fatigue & Failure analysis
Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Compressible & Incompressible Fluids
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Multi-Phase analysis
- Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method
- Mesh-Based Flow
Thermal
- Conduction
- Radiation
- Orbit simulation
Femap customization
- Customized user interface using the Femap Application Programmer's Interface (API).
- Development of parametric modelling and analysis sequences
- Integation of FEA with Microsoft Excell
- Combining various rules and regulations with FEA post-processing.
Design and optimisation
- Optimisation with respect to use of material
- Optimisation with respect to loading conditions
- Optimisation with respect to structural stability
Conceptual designs
- Concept development for load carrying products and constructions
- Mechanical systems development
Consultancy and second opinion
- Advice on equipment handling
- Choice of material
- Evaluation of calculation procedures
- Analysis procedures according to engineering standards
NAFEMS
As Femto Engineering aims for a high standard in FEA, we are member of NAFEMS, the National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards
