Design & Analysis Ltd

Expert provider of structural design and analysis services to the defence industry since 2003.  Managing work packages ranging from complete vehicles to small brackets, performing operational, survivability, crash and fatigue assessments using both FEA and manual methods.

Typical work undertaken includes:

• Vehicle suspension development including kinematic assessments under battlefield mission parameters.
• Blast simulation for air blast, mine blast and ballistic impacts to STANAG 4569/AEP-55.
• Vehicle roll over assessments.
• Interior equipment development.
• Driver and passenger seat development including injury assessment to AEP-55 table E2 using validated FEA versions of the Humanetics crash test dummies (Hybrid III MIL-LX).
• Special to role equipment, such as excavator arms, front loader buckets, route marker systems and load platforms.
• General vehicle body structures, including crash analysis.
• Military recovery, lifting and tiedown features.
• Kinematic assessments for the development of mechanisms.
• Lifting equipment.
• Trailer towing.
• Weight and design optimisation including the application of composites and lightweight materials.