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Offshore
In safety critical areas such as the offshore oil and gas industries, 3-dimensional Computer Aided Design (CAD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) plays a crucial role in mitigating risk.
Pro|ENGINEER® Wildfire™, the chosen 3D
CAD platform within the PDL group, allows for the detailed 3D engineering design and visualisation of complex structures, including
full clash detection capability, tolerance analysis investigation, and detailed mechanism simulation.
Once the 3D CAD models are created, or
indeed received from our customer’s own CAD systems, our extensive linear, non-linear and dynamic FEA capabilities allows for even the most demanding structural loading conditions
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FEA - Blast and survivability assessment |
Our FEA capabilities include full structural, fatigue and vibration analyses under static or dynamic loading conditions for any given temperature or load duration. Our ANSYS® LS-DYNA™ capability allows us to simulate even short-term limited duration events such as a collision, impact or a catastrophic failure and the recent addition of ANSYS® AutoDYN™ brings full penetration, explicit explosion simulation and survivability capability into the fold.
The company continues to pioneer the use of computational fluid dynamics to simulate fluid, heat and air flow, and through the recent addition of the ANSYS® CFX software, our CFD capability now extends to modelling multi-phase scenarios such as fire, smoke and heat transfer in and around any given assembly.
Our engineers work in a way so as to complement our offshore customer’s own design and engineering resources in a cost-effective manner and are fully conversant with most if not all of the conventional offshore design codes.
We would be delighted to support you on any offshore-related program and would welcome an initial exploratory meeting at no cost, either at your own offices or at our head office in Hexham, to discuss your requirements in detail.
Subsea
Fully conversant with all major subsea design codes, PDL engineers have supported client companies during the design and development of some of the most technically challenging subsea projects.
Using sound engineering practises and our extensive linear, non-linear and dynamic FEA capabilities, we have not only been engaged by clients to validate their own in-house subsea designs, but to also take on the complete design and substantiation of whole assemblies to the appropriate design codes.
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Our engineers work both on-site at our client’s premises with all of the associated PDL hardware and software licences, or on a remote basis from our offices in Hexham. Either way, we become an integral part of our client’s own design team providing cost effective design and validation support as and when it is needed.
We would be delighted to support you on any Oil&Gas-related program and would welcome an initial exploratory meeting at no cost, either at your own offices or at our head office in Hexham, to discuss your requirements in detail.
Our contact numbers are listed below and in the contact section of this website, alternatively, send an e-mail to solutions@pdl-group.com and we will call you back by return. |
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