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Applied Mechanics Engineering, LLP applies the principles of structural, fluid, and thermal dynamics to solve problems of great importance for its clients.
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333 City Blvd West, Suite 1700
Orange, CA, USA 92868-5905
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robert@appliedmechanicsengineering.com
(714) 732-1674
Areas of Practice
Structural dynamics
All practical structures experience dynamic loading during their service lives. The differentiating factor is if the structure’s design is governed primarily by dynamic loading, or is affected tangentially by low to moderate level dynamic loading. Applied Mechanics Engineering focuses on the low, moderate, and extreme dynamic loading of metal structures, where the structure is required to resist cyclic and/or impulsive loads and remain functional. Examples of low to moderate dynamic loads are the cyclic loads experienced during normal‑use environment vibration, or the impacts experienced during equipment handling, or from low to moderate‑speed body impacts, or similar types of loading events. Examples of extreme dynamic loads are those resulting from explosive blasts, or from high‑speed body impacts, or from fast deflagrations, or from Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion (BLEVE) events, or similar types of loading events.
Fluid dynamics
Fluid dynamics occur over a wide range of applications, and at various scales. From the cooling of small components contained in electronic equipment to the cooling of large industrial equipment; and the use of fluid motive power on small scales to the compressible and reactive gas flow of turbo machinery the need to quantify and accommodate fluid effects in engineering design is extensive. Applied Mechanics Engineering uses the principles of fluid behavior and interaction to understand basic hardware functioning; and applies computational fluid dynamics to closely quantify the fluid motion and fluid-structure interaction in various types of system components. The fluid modeling can be anywhere in the range from an incompressible to a highly compressible flow regime.
thermal dynamics
The thermal profile of equipment in operation will determine, in whole or in part, the level of effectiveness. Components operating outside of their optimal thermal profile will be inefficient at least, and at worst can cause catastrophic failure of a system. Components operating at too high of a temperature level, yet below any catastrophic level, will likely experience a reduced service life, require early replacement, and thus upset the planned cost of operation. Applied Mechanics Engineering can apply effective thermal steady state and transient response predictions, in single or conjugate mode heat transfer, for predicting and assessing the thermal performance of equipment. The temperature gradients involved for modeling can be anywhere from moderate to extreme.
engineering simulation
At the center of the engineering design process is engineering simulation. Engineering simulation allows for the creation of an analytical model to use to make predictions about the functioning of a given system component. Design and use environment parameters can be changed, and the predicted effects studied relatively easily to create an effective understanding of the component’s response in a given use environment. The engineering simulation model predicted results can be used to execute effectively an associated testing program in order to fully understand the component and system responses.
Applied Mechanics Engineering has extensive experience in engineering simulation, and utilizes industry standard commercial software packages for creating and analyzing engineering simulation models.
engineering design
Mechanical engineering design involves addressing the needed functioning of a given piece of hardware within a defined use environment. The functioning and use environment can make the design task anywhere from relatively simple to very complicated. The level of complexity of the design task will determine the type and level of complexity of the tools to be applied. Engineering simulation, for example, can be applied in a rather simple manner to quantify intuitively known behavior, or can be applied in a wider and complicated manner where hardware behavior quantification is rather involved to predict.
Applied Mechanics Engineering has extensive experience in engineering design across the complexity spectrum, and can provide an engineering design description and response quantification for a variety of hardware types.
engineering testing
Engineering testing is needed in any hardware development task. The testing can be relatively simple, or very complicated, depending on the components and system involved, and the desired performance outcome. The testing can take place on the first production unit made, and immediately upon being put into service, depending on the use environment and the consequences of failure. The testing can also be performed on a series of prototype units, leading to a final unit design that is tested extensively prior to being put into service. The latter approach is typically used for hardware applications where the use environment is hazardous, and the consequence of failure is highly detrimental.
Applied Mechanics Engineering has vast experience with engineering testing across the complexity spectrum, and can assist with developing and executing a hardware test program that applies the appropriate level of complexity. The testing objective coupled with data from engineering simulation models will provide the detailed information needed for specifying and sizing the test instrumentation.
hardware fabrication
Consideration for the fabrication of a given component begins at the conceptual design stage. As the design progresses and is matured the ability to produce the design is also considered in detail in order to carry along a pragmatic plan for producing the design. In a new component development task the fabrication plan can require some fabrication techniques to be developed new, or have existing techniques altered.
Applied Mechanics Engineering has much experience with a variety of fabrication methods, and can assist the component fabrication stage by helping to understand and apply a variety of existing fabrication techniques, or with developing new fabrication techniques.
Hardware Commissioning and Evaluation
Integrating a new component, or components, into a new or existing system can be an intricate process of using analysis and test measured data to understand and quantify the system’s operational performance. If the desired operational performance is not being realized changes to the system can be studied in simulation as needed, and executed as is practical and safe to do so. This is also true for an existing system that is exhibiting an altered operational performance without any purposeful changes having been made to the system.
Applied Mechanics Engineering has vast experience in measuring and assessing mechanical component and system performance; and can assist in the system evaluation, simulation, and operation with performance data comparison and understanding in order to evaluate and adjust component and system performance.
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“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”
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