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DRD Technology Engineering Consulting
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DRD offers a flexible array of
engineering consulting services to help our customers
effectively use technology from ANSYS, Inc. to solve
engineering problems. We are committed to cost effective use
of ANSYS, CFX, FLUENT, or AUTODYN whether we take total
responsibility for solving a problem or whether we help our
customers develop expertise to solve their problems on their
own.
DRD has experience in multiple facets of structural and
computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The coupling of these
technologies (known as fluid-structure interaction or FSI)
is critical in obtaining accurate answers in many
applications. DRD can make this happen for you with the
ANSYS and CFX families of products.
DRD has also developed extensive expertise in meeting and
exceeding Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS)
requirements put forth by Telcordia Technologies (Bellcore)
document GR-63-CORE. |
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Pictorial View of Representative
Consulting Projects
Bird Strike, Explicit Dynamics
Ball Grid
Array (BGA) Solder Fatigue
Hyperelastic Seal
Simulation
Cab Suspension,
Linear Stress Optimization
Cell Phone Drop Test
Representative List of Consulting Reports
Heavy Equipment
Heat Exchanger, Waste
Recovery
Telecommunications
Oil Field
Medical Devices
Aircraft
Antenna Dishes
Other Applications |
DRD strives to be the
leading CAE solutions provider in two areas:
1) Use of CAD Geometry
to Make ANSYS Models
2) Comprehensive Engineering Mechanics and CFD Expertise First, we
specialize in the effective use of CAD geometry to construct
ANSYS finite models. Our breadth and depth of CAE
tools and
expertise enable us to make use of existing CAD geometry and
make ANSYS models quickly. DRD's emphasis on effective use
of CAD geometry enables us to make finite element models
faster and, therefore, less expensively than our
competitors.
Secondly, at DRD we maintain expertise in a very wide range
of areas including stress analysis, heat transfer,
computational fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, acoustics,
vibration, explicit dynamics, and general coupled field
analysis. Our expertise enables us to leverage the power in
ANSYS and to formulate and solve problems in which we
include all the important phenomena.
We can take
CAD models in a wide variety of formats, improve and/or
repair the geometry, and then write it out in the format that our customer needs.
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Flexible Range of
Services
Our customers can choose from the
following array of DRD engineering consulting services: |
Traditional Finite Element and Computational
Fluid Analysis
We can help you formulate
an FEA or CFD solution approach, solve the problem,
and then provide the solution to you.
FEA and CFD have traditionally been
used as a verification or trouble shooting tool.
When we work with our customers in this manner we
construct the ANSYS model, run the analysis, verify the results through hand calculations and other means, and finally present the finite elements results to our customer in a report. If the customer is satisfied with the results, then we are done. If the results indicate problems with the design or areas for improvement, then we can make changes to the model and repeat the process. |
Analysis Based Design
You can describe to us the objectives and criteria for a new product design. We will start from scratch or take an existing design and use our tools and expertise to deliver to you a new and improved design.
Utilization of simulation software in this mode usually provides the best return on investment. This is because we have the opportunity to detect problems and optimize the design before making expensive prototypes or committing to design concepts that are difficult to undo. |
Example of Analysis
Based Design
Cab
Suspension from Link Manufacturing
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Technology Transfer
It is a large investment for a company to develop in house FEA and CFD expertise. DRD can help companies reduce the cost of this investment by accelerating the learning process.
DRD can help determine whether or not simulation software has the potential to provide cost effective solutions to our client's problems. We can then solve one of these problems and help our customers learn to solve this problem themselves. We can combine standard ANSYS course offerings with custom problem-specific training and one on one mentoring.
In some cases DRD develops a model, provides the model to our client, and then shows the client how to make changes to the model. This combination of consulting and training allows the customer to leverage DRD's expertise while enabling the customer to utilize simulation driven product design easily.
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Example of Technology Transfer
Elastomer Seal Simulation
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