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Hardware
eStress has developed a new type of lightweight slender strut for engineering structures. The product, designed to offer equal or bespoke capacities in tension and compression, enables the benefits of advanced materials to be exploited in a simple, reliable, and cost-effective way.
The product offers significant performance gains over struts composed of traditional materials (with respect to specific strength and stiffness), and over struts composed entirely of advanced materials (with respect to cost, simplicity, reliability, and integrity of connections). The main feature of the high performance strut product is the way end joint difficulties are overcome by utilising the most useful properties of the materials comprising the strut assembly - the high strength and stiffness to weight ratio of the advanced material, with the ductility of metals.
The advanced material is incorporated into, and worked by the strut assembly, without having to rely on either mechanical fastening or adhesive bonding, thus eliminating the major problem usually associated with the implementation of materials of this kind. Traditional metallic rod ends, imparting adjustability to the assembly, transfer external loading into and out of the strut. For optimum strength, the strut utilises carbon/graphite fibres - for high temperature applications, the strut employs ceramics. Significant weight savings over traditional all-metallic struts can be achieved.
Software
eStress offers a range of coding capability including MS Visual Basic, C++ and Fortran as programming languages.
A collection of windows based engineering software applications has been developed in-house encapsulating the experience gained by our engineers over many years working on real engineering projects.
eStress-Solutions is in the process of web-enabling many of these applications for use over the Internet. Several of these are now available and can be used from our eTools menu item. Further applications are being developed for transfer to the web.
Applications currently used in-house cover structural engineering analysis, material properties evaluation, stress analysis, heat transfer and engineering administration utilities.
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