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SOLSI-CAD, mechanical engineering and consulting
3D Mechanical Design and Drafting
CAD
FEA
CFD
PLASTIC INJECTION
3D OPTICAL SCAN
SOLSI-CAD, mechanical engineering and consulting
since 1985
3D Mechanical Design and Drafting
Numerical Simulation (FEA / CFD / Plastic Injection)
3D Optical Scan (Reverse Engineering / Dimensional Inspection)
CAD
DESIGN
Product & Assembly Design
Mechanical Testing
3D Modeling
Drafting
What do we do?
- Preliminary design
- Detailed design
- Design for manufacturability
- GD&T / stack up analysis
- CAD drawings / 3D modeling
- System integration
- Siting and feasibility study
- Loads distribution calculation
- Eurocodes for civil and structural engineering
- Instrumentation and testing with our partner
SOLSI-TEC - Onsite topology acquisition and 3D scan
- Onsite surveys
Activites
- Welded structure
- Bolted assemblies
- Metal fabrication, piping, ducts
- Steel framing, footbridge, safety guardrails
- Special-purpose machines
- Tooling design
- Plastic / Composite / Metal parts
- Tensile, compression, bend testing
- Fatigue and thermal aging testing
- Prototyping & 3D printing w/ polyamide powder
Results
- Scope statement, specifications definition
- Plans, CAD drawings (DXF, DWG, PDF)
- Fabrication instructions & CNC machine files (DSTV)
- Installation instructions & Technical illustration
- Suppliers research
- Order placement and production monitoring
- In-house assembly & testing
- Client delivery and validation
- Fabrication costing
- Prototype costing
Softwares
- AUTOCAD
- 3DVIA
- CATIA V4
- CATIA V5
- SOLIDWORKS
- PRO-ENGINEER / CREO
- UNIGRAPHICS NX SIEMENS
- INVENTOR
- ADVANCE STEEL
FEA
SIMULATION
Finite Element Analysis
Stress–Strain Analysis
Structural Mechanics
Thermomechanics
What do we do?
- Kinematics and dynamics
- Static, dynamic analysis
- Elasticity, viscoelasticity and plasticity
- Large deformations and hyperelasticity
- Contact mechanics
- Modal analysis
- Spectral analysis
- Instabilities calculation
Web Yielding, Crippling and Buckling - Creep
- Fatigue
- Fracture mechanics
- Thermal expansion
- FSI Fluid Structure Interaction
Activites
- Steel framing:
Light & heavy gauge - Platforms, footbridge, handrail, grating
- Welded structure
- Bolted assemblies
- Shells, piping, ducts
- Special-purpose machines
- Rotating machinery
- Impact, drop test, crash test
- Crack propagation
- Wind, snow, severe weather loads
- Explosive loading
- Seismic analysis
Results
- Stresses and deformed shape
- Material selection:
steel, alloys, composites, plastics - Natural frequencies
- Lifetime estimation
- Defect analysis and prevention
- Topology optimization
- Topography optimization
- System performance characterisation
- System failure simulation
Softwares
- AUTOCAD
- ANSYS WORKBENCH
- ANSYS MECHANICAL
- MSC NASTRAN
- MSC MARC
- HYPERMESH
- OPTISTRUCT
- RADIOSS
- COSMOS WORKS
- ADVANCE DESIGN
- ROBOT STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
- ADVANCE DESIGN
- SIMULIA / ABAQUS
- SOLIDWORKS SIMULATION
CFD
SIMULATION
Heat Transfers
Fluid Mechanics
HPC Parallel Computing
1D System-level Simulation
What do we do?
- Hydraulics
- Compressible flow
- Multispecies flow
- Multiphasic flow
- Particulate flow
- Reacting flow
- Convection, conduction, radiation
- Evaporation / condensation
- Melting / solidification
- Combustion
- Cavitation
- External aerodynamics
- FSI Fluid Structure Interaction
Activites
- Flue gas treatment
- Smoke plume dispersion
- Atmospheric air pollutant dispersion
- Exhaust hood, interior baffles, duct network
- SCR, Electrofilter, Baghouse
- Fan selection
- HVAC
- Wind loads on buildings
- Fire / smoke extraction
- Explosion / shock wave propagation
- Rotating machinery
- Power electronics cooling systems
- Industrial processes
- Boilers, furnaces, burners, ovens, incinerators
- Agitation and mixing systems
- Heat exchangers
Results
- Flow homogeneization
- Pressure drop minimization
- Heat dissipation calculation
- Comfort simulation
- System performance characterisation
- System failure simulation
- System optimization
Softwares
- ANSYS WORKBENCH
- ANSYS DESIGN MODELER
- ANSYS FLUENT
- ANSYS MESHING
- SOLIDWORKS FLOW SIMULATION
- GAMBIT
- TGRID
- FLOWMASTER
PLASTIC INJECTION
SIMULATION
Compression mold simulation
Injection mold design
Plastic part design
Injection molding
What do we do?
- Rheology
- non-Newtonian fluids
- Melt Flow Index (MFI)
- Fiber orientation
- Vicat Softening Temperature
- Viscoelasticity
- Heat Deflection Temperature (HDT)
- Material shrinkage
- Drying temperature
Activites
- Plastics injection
- Gas-Assist Injection Molding
- Shrinkage analysis
- Venting analysis
- Suppress appareance defect
- Cavities balancing
- Sequential injection
- Overbending extraction
- MuCell Technology
Results
- Injection process validation
- Filling, packing, cooling
- Internal stresses and deformation
- Cycle time improvement
- Hesitation effects
- Target the root cause of deformations
- Weld lines location
- Material shrinkage
- Clamp force
- Bi-material and overmolding
Softwares
- MOLDFLOW INSIGHT ULTIMATE
3D OPTICAL SCAN
CONTACTLESS
3D Metrology
Self-monitoring system
Portable measuring system
High accuracy acquisition 5µm
What do we do?
- 3D acquisition of free-form surfaces
- Metrological comparison with initial CAD model
- GD&T control on the part / assembly:
planarity, parallelism, cylindricity, … - Maximum material requirement
- Position tolerance from a reference
- Global/local best-fit
Activites
- Quality control
- Reverse engineering
- Sheet metals, turbine blades, prototypes…
- Plastic Parts inspection
- Injection-molded, pressure die-cast, machined parts
foundry - Curve-based inspection to evaluate gap and flush
- Tooling inspection & design support
- Footprint measurement
- Failure analysis
- Statistical process control
- Exterior finish check
- Assembly check
- On site measurement
Results
- CAD comparison: surface, sections, points, …
- Dimensional analysis (2D, 3D, GD&T, SPC)
- Inspection of surface defects:
local analysis of dents, bulges and defects - Statistical process control (SPC)
- Measuring reports
Equipement
- Scan GOM ATOS 5-10µm accuracy
- 3D coordinate measuring machine TRITOP
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