Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a numerical technique for finding approximate solutions. This solution approach, FEA, is used at Hatch for mechanical equipment design and analysis by the Iron & Steel, Light Metals, Non-Ferrous, Mining & Mineral Processing and Energy business units for solving mechanical failures, concrete expansion behaviour and optimizing designs.

Experienced FEA Analysis

• Compliance to a specified Design Authority Requirement
• Parametric development of new designs
• Value engineering on an existing design
• Failure analysis of a component by analyzing various loading scenarios and examining the resulting stress pattern in the component to determine a probable failure mode
• Non-linear stress analysis (non linear material behaviour, contact, large deformation, geometric non linearities such as large displacements and large rotations, etc.)
• Non-linear materials (plasticity, creep, hyper-elasticity, etc.)
• Non-linear contact (frictional contact, thermal contact, electrical contact)
• Fluid structure interaction: Coupled analysis of CFD fluid (pressure and thermal) interaction with FEA structural models
• Fatigue, reliability, life protection
• Heat transfer (steady and transient thermal, non-linear material properties, convection, surface-to-surface radiation, etc. )
• Thermal-electrical: Coupled analysis of heat and current flow including Joule heating
• Thermal-mechanical : Analysis of structural stresses and strains due to the temperature distribution in a body
• Thermal-electrical-mechanical: Coupled analysis of electrical contact problems in which interface resistance depends on pressure which in turns depends on thermal expansion.
• Drop test (structural explicit analysis)
• Buckling frequency and harmonic response
• ANSYS FEA training