Composites
Composites
Top subject matter experts in composites analysis and design.
Our core expertise is with high performance carbon reinforced laminates used in aerospace, transportation, medical, and sport products.
We have decades of experience, large volumes of published articles, and a proven track record of production grade engineering support.
SMC has wide ranging composites experience in the spacecraft, launch vehicle, and aircraft industries. Our experience ranges from composite characterization and allowables creation, detailed design, structural analysis, and design verification testing. Specialized modeling and analysis techniques allow fast assessment of designs and rapid trade studies. We have specialized experience in detailed joint characterization, modeling, and testing that include, potted inserts, bonded joints, bolted joints, hybrid joints, sandwich panel closeouts, inserts, and joint details. By leveraging past experience and test databases, design feasibility can be assessed prior to expensive and time consuming test programs.
PAST PROJECTS
- Goodrich Aerostructures A350 Thrust Reverser
- Goodrich Aerostructures B787 Thrust Reverser
- DirecTV-7S Satellite Antenna Tower
- Telstar-8 Solar Array
- Northrop-Grumman GlobalHawk
- General Atomics Predator
- Atlas-V Large Payload Fairing
- Raytheon ASTOR Radar Housing
- Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Fluid Ejection Piezoceramic Composite Actuators
- Proprietary Sattelite Manufacturing Induced Deformations
- NASA X-34 Fuel Tank
- Boeing Blended Wing Body (BWB)
- NuSTAR Space Telescope
CAPABILITIES
Composites
Top subject matter experts in composites analysis and design. Our core expertise is with high performance carbon reinforced laminates used in aerospace, transportation, medical, and sport products. We have decades of experience, large volumes of published articles, and a proven track record of production grade engineering support.
Finite Element Analysis & Simulations
CAE and classical methods expertise. Design and simulation of single components up to full system models. Optimization, dynamics, aero-flutter, drop-simulations, multi-body contact, thermal, CFD, and fluid-structure interactions. Experienced users of NX, I-deas, Femap, Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, Hyperworks, Patran, Thermal Desktop, and NISA solvers.
Structural Mechanics and Dynamics
Expertise with dynamic environments including aircraft, spacecraft, transportation, and electronic assemblies. Vibration environment determination from specifications to sub-assembly interfaces. Linear and transient solutions for assembly level finite element models using FEA and custom software tools.
Structural Optimization
Drastically reduce product development cycles by rapidly converging on the best balance between weight, performance, and cost. SMC is an industry leader in the development and use of advanced optimization tools. We sell the software and provide the training to get you up running.
System Integration & Project Management
SMC provides project management and professional development to engineering teams that support product design and analysis: systems engineering from project kickoff through specification generation and interpretation to verification testing.
Product Development
Leverage our expertise, tools, and engineers to rapidly take products from ideation to fabrication.
• Conceptual Design
• Research and Development
• Simulation and Optimization
• Prototype and Testing
Laboratory Testing
Our laboratory features two load frames and two dynamic shaker tables with complete digital data acquisition capabilities for testing small to mid-sized specimens. The Structural Mechanics Corporation also has experience managing and performing large scale static, dynamic, and wind tunnel testing through cooperation with our industry partners.
Operational Testing
Complete structural testing support from test plan and procedure development through test setup and support to final report writing. SMC has the equipment and expertise required to make static and dynamic displacement, strain, acceleration, force, and acoustic measurements. We have experience testing satellites, aircraft, road vehicles, industrial machinery, and consumer products.
International Liaison
We have the technical expertise, business experience, plus the language and cultural skills to help you manage your international business relationships. SMC has engineers and technical staff who are fluent in Japanese, Hindi, Gujarati, and Spanish who have experience performing as engineering liaisons in Japan, Italy, India, Germany, and Taiwan.
SMC has wide ranging composites experience in the spacecraft, launch vehicle, and aircraft industries. Our experience ranges from composite characterization and allowables creation, detailed design, structural analysis, and design verification testing. Specialized modeling and analysis techniques allow fast assessment of designs and rapid trade studies. We have specialized experience in detailed joint characterization, modeling, and testing that include, potted inserts, bonded joints, bolted joints, hybrid joints, sandwich panel closeouts, inserts, and joint details. By leveraging past experience and test databases, design feasibility can be assessed prior to expensive and time consuming test programs.
