DIMENSIONS have a dedicated team of Product Design Engineers. The team has more than 20 man-years of experience in the design of automobile, machine tool and fluid machinery.

With good knowledge and wide industrial experience, the team can provide high quality and optimized design products to customers. This ensures good performance, reasonable product life and cost effective products.

The team is capable of offering design and manufacturing solutions in the following areas:

Automobile Systems
• Suspension systems
• Steering systems
• Brake systems
• Transmission systems
• Body-in-white design
• Trims and closures
• Interiors


Design engineering services – Structural / Stress Engineering - Expertise

Finite Element Analysis

- Analysis / Design Integration
- Stress / Load Path Analysis
- Mode Shape and Resonance Response
- Composite and Nonlinear Analysis

► Additional Capabilities
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Kinematics/Dynamic Analysis (ADAMS)
- Integration with In-house Rapid Prototyping Methods

The team has extensive experience in analyses of various types. They have carried out large automotive projects using both static and component mode synthesis. Various types of analyses carried out are

Static - strength evaluation and margins of safety
Thermo - elastic - thermal distortion and pointing accuracy evaluation
Normal mode - free vibration characteristics
Steady state and Transient - evaluation of responses
Fracture and Fatigue - life prediction using fracture mechanics
Nonlinear - both material and geometric
Buckling - buckling factors and modes

♦ Materials
Usages of materials like metallic, honeycomb, composites and non-linear materials.

♦ Loading/Boundary conditions
Excellent understanding in handling loading and boundary conditions like nodal forces and moments, prescribed displacements, velocities and accelerations, pressure loads, nodal temperatures and heat flux, load application in user-specified co-ordinate systems, single point constraints, multiple point constraints etc.

♦ Model verification
Verifications include checking for duplicate elements, aspect ratio, warpage, skewness, distortion, unconnected elements, closed rigid loops, double dependency of rigid elements etc. At the model level, checks are carried on mass, CG and rigid body modes.

♦ Correlation between test and analysis
Good experience in correlation of mathematical models with test results. Correlation studies are carried out both for static and vibration tests. Updating of mathematical models after studying the test results.

♦ Thermal Analysis
Heat load calculations, Conductive, Convective and Radiative interaction exchange analysis, heat transfer in composite materials under both Steady state and Transient state modes.

♦ Output Results
Stresses, deflections, margins of safety, dynamic characteristics, and mathematical models, load levels from coupled load analysis, test criteria, test-analysis correlation, and design validation / modification.

Client references
• General Motors – South Africa – Identified Supplier
• TESCO Engineering – USA
• Matador – SKODA/ AUDI
• Gescomat – PSA Peugeot
• Ingemat, Spain – Volkswagen / Audi / SEAT supplier
• Candemat, Spain – Volkswagen / SEAT supplier
• DANA, Brazil
• TATA Motors, India
• Cummins, UK
• Bombardier, Finland
• ABC Technology Center, Toronto, Canada for Chrysler
• Product Genesis, Michigan, USA – Engineering Services
• GAMCO, Dubai
• Hartham Technologies, Motor Sports Division, UK