EITD provides mechanical engineering services to a wide array of partners including university and research laboratories, aeronautical industries, and government organizations such as the Department of Defense and NASA. Design examples include the following:
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- Design and integration of payloads into the Spacelab Module, Spacelab Pallets, MPESS, STS Middeck, MPLM, SPACEHAB, and Space-X Dragon, and Orbital Sciences Cygnus
- Experiment Racks for Spacelab and ISS Missions
- Multiple Protein Crystal Growth systems for ground laboratories, STS and ISS missions
- Fluid manipulation in microgravity, both manually and robotically
- Laser light scattering and video detection systems for use in detecting nucleation within protein solutions
- High intensity X-ray systems with low power consumption for use aboard the ISS
- Integration of Thermal Electric Devices into space flight qualified refrigerators/incubators
- Integration of Stirling Engines into space flight qualified cryogenic freezers
- Handheld Biosensors for packaging of airborne pathogen detectors
- Heavy lifting devices for military aircraft loading
- High resolution video imaging and automation packagin for biotechnology hardware
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Mechanical Design
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Our engineers have an extensive history of developing mechanical designs in compliance with the requirements of MIL-STD-100 and ANSI Y14.5M. Designs are produced with solid modeling packages Solid Edge and ProE. Expertise with other CAD packages such as Microstation and EMS is also available. An on-site research machine shop provides a seamless interaction between the design and manufacturing process. EITD maintains configuration control over released drawings and analyses through a configuration management system that has been certified to ISO9001:2015 with design and AS9100 Revision D.
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Structural Analysis
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- Linear
- Non-linear
- Multi-body contact
- Dynamic
- Frequency response
- Shock response
- Crack propagation
- Multi-physics coupling
- Design optimization
- Finite Element Modeling using FEMAP pre and post processing and NX NASTRAN as the solver
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Thermal-CFD Analysis
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- conjugate heat transfer
- multi-phase and reacting flows
- dynamic fluid body interaction
- electrodynamic fluid interaction
- aeroacoustics
Software
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