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Staff Augmentation

If you have a hot project or require skills that you don’t have in-house, MSC engineers can augment your staff to get it done. Our consulting engineers have deep expertise in structures, impact, blast, motion, controls, fluids, thermal, fatigue, and advanced materials using linear and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA), multi-body dynamics, thermal analysis, acoustics, control systems, simulation data management, and other simulation technology.

Recent projects:

Advanced Composite Aircraft
Electronic Thermal System
Dropped Consumer Package
Vascular Stent Fatigue
Aircraft Flutter

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Project Description:
Advanced Composite Aircraft

Structural analysis of an advanced composite aircraft

An MSC software customer won a contract to develop an unmanned composite aircraft. This required immediate access to specialized aircraft analysis skills, including aeroelastic loads, aircraft preliminary design, and the analysis of composite structures. MSC's Consulting Services provided a consulting engineer with more than twenty years of experience to work on-site alongside the customers' engineers. This consulting engineer not only performed structural analyses for the customer, augmenting their engineering staff. The consulting engineer also assisted the customer by helping training their new staff in the use of advanced capabilities of MSC's software products, allowing the customer to staff up more rapidly and maximize the value of their investment.

Project Description:
Electronic Thermal System

Thermal Analysis of an Electronic System

MSC conducted simulation of an aircraft electronic system, including the printed circuit board, electronic components, insulators, mounts, and the enclosure. MSC not only provided the simulation, but also a report for submittal by MSC's customer to their customer and supported a design review and design changes.

Project Description:
Dropped Consumer Package

Product Drop Testing

A customer needed to reduce warranty claims for shipping damage to consumer electronics products. MSC's consulting services group established a process for them to simulate dropping of their products, including the cardboard box and foam end caps. Using these "virtual tests", the customer was able to optimize their packaging to minimize the probability of damage while maintaining affordable packaging and shipping. As part of this project, MSC also developed specialized utilities for the customer to determine the accumulated damage from repeated drops with varying orientations.

Project Description:
Vascular Stent Fatigue

Fatigue analysis of a vascular stent

MSC's consulting engineers have extensive experience in the analysis of vascular stents, functioning as an extension of the engineering departments of stent developers. Although stents are not complex mechanically, their deployment and service environments are very complex and premature failures are not acceptable. MSC's consulting engineers have analyzed dozens of stent designs to support design development and approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

These simulations have included:

Both corrosion resistant steel and shape memory alloys
Expansion within elastic blood vessels, both straight and curved
Simulation of overlapping stents
Fatigue analysis of the stents to support government approval

MSC's consulting engineers understand the needs of biomedical engineers and regulatory requirements.

Project Description:
Aircraft Flutter

Aircraft Flutter Analysis

A customer asks MSC to perform a flutter analysis to support an aircraft modification that was being developed. MSC developed a dynamic structural model, correlated it to ground vibration test, constructed an unsteady aerodynamic model, and coupled the structural and aerodynamic models together for flutter analysis. MSC not only performed the flutter analysis, but demonstrated every step of the process to a member of the customer's staff, transferring the technology for applying MSC Nastran's aeroelastic capabilities to the customer to maximize the value of their investment.