Failure Analysis|Silverarm

Fluid flow simulations using CFD for flow rate, fluid structure interaction, flow optimization and fan design.

Materials selection, sourcing and testing.

Mechanical

Thermal

Fluids

Materials

Mechanical and Structural Simulation

Using simulation to predict mechanical perfomance is a great way to reduce time and costs in the product development process. We can take your ideas and simulate how they are going to perform in the real world. Applying FEA to carry out virtual testing for strength, deflection, stress concentration and fatigue we can quickly identify areas of concern. So we can explore and optimise all of your ideas whilst saving money and time. Click above for more.

Thermal Simulation

We simulate heat transfer to develop thermally optimised designs. Understand the thermal response so that you can drive the development of reliable products, quickly and for less. We can examine everything from electronics cooling to high temperature creep. Couple this with mechanical analysis to look at thermal stress or degradation. Couple it with fluids for convection. If you have got thermal needs we can help. Click above for more.

Fluid Flow CFD

Analysis of fluid flows of gas and liquids using computational fluid dynamics provides insight into how the shape of your design will influence the flow rate, velocity and turbulence produced in operation. This insight will allow design optimisation of all fluid contact areas, this can be applied to fan and pump designs, HVAC, aerodynamic, hydrodynamics, porous materials, and many more. If your innovation is experiencing turbulence we can help! Click above for more.

Materials Selection and testing

Your choice of material will greatly influence the sucess of your product. To have a full characterisation of the material will help you to decide how to use it in your design and how to take advantage of its properties. We will identify, test and source candidate materials for you to ensure you leverage your product success. Click above for more.

When products go wrong its always instructive to find out why. If its an internal investigation to improve, a warranty claim or litigation, product failure will provide an opportunity to learn and do better. We enhance the benefit of that experience with design, materials and manufacturing analysis. Applying simulation to failure will reveal how the design influenced product performance and demonstrate the limits so that the root cause of failure can be found. Be it overload, misuse, design error or environmental factors we give guidance to sift through the evidence and discover why things went wrong. This will signpost to how to improve things and prevent further failure. Materials and manufacturing analysis augments this to study the influence of how the product was made and if the raw materials used intiated the unexpected failure.

Silverarm provide preliminary reports in legal cases to save you time and money when deciding if you have a case to pursue litigation. This service is competitively priced to give quick answers. All product failures can be considered, if we do not have the knowledge or experience in your area then we will find you an expert who can help.