Service and Business Areas

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 Software development
 What's our offer?
 FEM examples (overview)
 Research and development

Software development

Development and marketing of the COSAR finite element system,
specific model generation tools, material data management systems, etc.

Development of individual FE and engineering software and
customising the COSAR software for your specific applications

Hardware/software adaptations

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What's our offer?

Support service for COSAR users

Consultancy Service

Customer-based project work to support you in tackling more advance applications
and help to smooth out your peak workload

FE analyses of every kind of  engineering components and structures
(static, dynamic, heat transfer, non-linear problems, etc.)

Weak point-analysis, optimisation of design solutions

Construction of parametric and other FE models for customers

Design Assessment to meet the requirements set down in national
and international design codes and industry standards accepted
by professional bodies and after limit-state design concept

Expert opinions

Experimental testing
(strain gauge measurement, vibration testing, experimental modal analysis)

 You will find in the reference list a selection of some of our customers.

Training courses

FEMCOS offers training classes, ranging from introductory courses for beginner to advanced courses for experts. So we offer a qualification for the use of the FEM with safety-related components and systems. In-house and customized classes are also available. We organize user conferences to deal with new findings in Finite-Element-Methods and in developments of the COSAR system itself, with speakers invited from industry and academic institutions.

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FEM examples (overview)

Some interesting structural analyses made by FEMCOS:

Betonpumpe - Drehkopf

Drehkopf Betonpumpe: Verformungs- und Spannungsberechnung Verformungs- und Spannungsberechnungen (mehr ...)

Concrete pump - Rotary head

Rotary head of concrete pump: Deformation and stress analysis Deformation and stress analysis (more ...)

Concrete pump - re-directing lever

FE analysis of a re-directing lever of a concrete pump Deformation and stress analysis (more ...)

Concrete pump - experimental  investigations

Putzmeister concrete pump: vibration test Vibration tests (more...)

Mast of a vertical drilling system

Mast of a vertical drilling system: proof of strength and optimization Proof of strength and optimization (more ...)

Goods wagon pivot chassis

Goods wagon pivot chassis: stress analysis Stress analysis and optimization of thin walled steel constructions (frame) (more ...)

V12 car engine

Model updating with COSAR Model updating with COSAR (more ...)

Steam engine

Steam engine: stress analysis of the pressure receptacle Stress analysis of the pressure receptacle (more ...)

FE analysis of a knee joint

FE-analysis of a knee joint Loading analysis (more ...)

Heat transfer

Steady state and transient heat transfer Steady state and transient heat transfer (more ...)

District heating systems components (Plastic-Jacket-Pipes)

FEM-analysis of a 90°-pipe elbow FEM-analysis of a 90°-pipe elbow  (more ...)

Insulating materials in district heating systems components

Computation of the long time behaviour Computation of the long time behaviour (more ...)

Load analysis of Worm Drive Hose Clamps

Analysis of worm drive hose clamps Loading analysis (more ...)

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Research and development

GeneralResearch projects

General

FEMCOS is constantly involved in various research projects:

- process and algorithm development for component safety and optimisation
- optimal modelling and modelling techniques
- recording, management and processing of material data
- thin-walled and ultra light-weight structures
- adaptive technical systems
- energy and environment technologies
- transfer of fundamental scientfic research to industrial applications

There is a close co-operation with a number of  Institutes of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, and especially to the Institute of Mechanics and  many other links to Universities and international research establishments.

COSAR is widely used in a number of research projects in structural and numerical mechanics and as a tool for development and computation as well.

Research projects

The following is a selection of past and present research projects involving FEMCOS:

A new type of district heating:
Analysis of the local static behaviour of critical pipe components (more ...)

Optimal mechanical design of plastic-jacket pipelines for district heating networks:
Application of finite beam models for the static analysis of plastic jacket pipes (more ...)

Simulation of technical microsystem components (SimiKo):
A material database for the simulation mikrosystem components (more ...)

Lead project ADAPTRONIK:
Adaptive composite structures for lightweight construction (more ...)

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