ESRD has been helping aerospace and defense (A&D) engineering professionals solve the toughest problems in strength, durability and damage tolerance of metallic and composite structures since 1989.
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Multi-body contact analysis of an aircraft shear clip.
We developed the world’s premier high-order FEA tool, StressCheck Professional, to empower our customers to obtain reliable solutions to their challenging engineering applications.
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Are high-resolution stress or strain gradients important to you? Or, any of the following?:
- Stress concentrations for small and/or difficult to analyze features
- Adhesively bonded ply by ply laminated composites details
- 3D stress intensity factors for user-defined crack geometries
- Multi-body contact analyses of fastened joints
- Residual stress due to cold-working process
- Global-local analysis of airframe details
- Customized engineering simulation apps
Chances are, we’ve seen these customer requirements before and can point you to the right place. Click on any of the images below to learn more about the classes of solid mechanics problems we can solve.
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“Small errors in modeling can lead to substantial errors in joint performance prediction. To alleviate this problem, the CAI used the handbook functionality of ESRD Inc.’s (St. Louis, Mo.) trademarked StressCheck P-version finite element software to develop reusable models of typical joints.”
Dr. John Russell
Composites World Magazine