DTRL provides customer-specific mechanical engineering services, varying from ad-hoc project support by highly skilled engineers to interdisciplinary project communication and management support, as well as engineering, R&D and testing services including:
Engineering
- Project support
- Mechanical analyses: fatigue/static/dynamic
- Rules and standards
- FEM
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Research
- Mechanical material behaviour
- Microstructural analysis
- Mechanical analyses on theoretical basis
- Material deformation and fracture at high strain rates
- Failure model development
- Structural safety research
- Crash and impact studies
- Literature studies
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Mechanical Testing
- High strain rate tensile / shear / compression testing
- High speed film and image analysis
- Digital image correlation
- Tensile & compresive testing
- Fatigue testing
- Fracture tests
- Drop weight / impact test
- Structural tests: fatigue / static / dynamic loading
- Dedicated test design at customer request
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Software
- Abaqus (Standard / Explicit / CAE)
- LS-Dyna
- Ansys Classic/Workbench
- MARC/Mentat
- Femap
- Hypermesh
- Patran
- Matlab
- Maple
- Mathcad
- Comsol
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Available equipment
- Servo-mechanical tensile machines up to 100 kN
- Servo-hydraulic tensile / fatigue machines up to 1000 kN
- Servo-hydraulic high speed tensile machine, max load 50kN at tensile velocity of 12 m/s
- Drop weight tower
- High temperature test equipment / weld simulator
- Hardness testers
- SEM / TEM / Optical Microscopy
- Various materials research equipment
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Delft Technology and Research Laboratories basically utilises high-tech equipment at well-known scientific and industry partners. More equipment can be made available through our contacts worldwide.