Wiggler power density visualisation

Mirror optic thermal deformation FEA

Thermal stress in power aperture

Typical Mathcad thermal calculation

Absorbed power in graphite filter

Raytrace isocontour plot of mirror focus

ANSYS stress contact analysis

Analysis Options for Optimised Design

IDT operate a full range of mechanical engineering analysis methods and tools backed by the benefit of real world feedback from years of experience. IDT can confidently offer engineering analysis studies which are incisive and accurate enough to give confidence in the results and make informed decisions about your project.

Finite Element Analysis

We use world leading packages ANSYS & Cosmos as our FEA tools. These can be benchmarked against other systems to build confidence in numerical accuracy. All work is undertaken to rigorous NAFEMS and ISO9001 guidelines & includes a full report backed with validation calculations, a description of the boundary conditions and modelling idealisation assumptions and error limits.

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Analytical Calculation

All of our work involving empirical and analytical hand calculations is completely open, referenced and detailed in standard mathematical notation, with explanatory diagrams. We use MathCAD as our mathematical 'scratchpad' so that such calculations are fast and flexible but easily interpreted by the customer. For more details of the type and scope of calculations that IDT can undertake see immediatedly below.

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Optical Raytrace & Simulation

Utilising X-ray raytracing and other optical modelling tools, IDT can offer feasibility & optimisation studies for multiple optical layout scenarios and realistic predictions of the performance of final selection beamline optical trains before they are committed to detail engineering design. Coupled with the ability to model thermal aberrations of optic surfaces using FEA, IDT's ability to offer realistic beamline optic simulation are world class.

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Kinematic Simulation

Utilising the full functionality of our 3D MCAD software, Solidworks, we are able to study the behaviour of complex assemblies in motion with many degrees of freedom (e.g. in the synchrotron field:- a multi-axes diffractometer). We can simulate a series of realistic, dynamic motion tests with time step checking on such output variables as; Automatic interference and near collision detection between parts.

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