Structural analysis

Prospect’s advanced structural analysis engineering capability is wide ranging and uses both traditional engineering and advanced CAE (computer aided engineering) technologies like FEA (finite element analysis) to understand structures and their responses throughout the project life cycle, from concept development through to the full detailed engineering phase.

Structural integrity and fitness-for-purpose assessments using traditional and advanced analysis methods are conducted to prove initial concepts, optimise designs, extend operating life and understand failure.

Prospect’s structural analysis engineering service includes:

  • Discontinuous systems involving contact & friction
  • Buckling
  • Marine dynamics and flexible structures
  • Fatigue / fracture mechanics
  • Fire & blast response
  • Forensic studies
  • Fluid-structure interaction